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- BFI identifier39093
- Date1959 (Copyright)
1960-09-26 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisSet in Canada, describing efforts by menaced child's parents to expose elderly homicidal pervert. Based on the play 'The Pony Cart' by Roger Garis (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe following statement appears before the opening credits: 'This story - like its characters - is fictitious. It is set in Canada. But it could happen anywhere - And it could be true.'
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Cyril Frankel
©/A Hammer Film Production: Hammer Film Productions
A Columbia Pictures Production: Columbia Pictures Corporation
view all - CastGwen Watford (Sally Carter)
Patrick Allen (Peter Carter)
Felix Aylmer (Clarence Frederick Olderberry)
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Title
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (Original)
Never Take Candy from a Stranger (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/E601-A71D-540A-AB78-3688-5Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on the play 'The Pony Cart' by Roger Garis - SCR-13059
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-39093
Information folder held. Small pressbook held.
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- +Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Work - 39093 - 1959 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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