Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.

• DirectorCyril Frankel
• Release4 March 1960
• Genre
  Drama / Mystery
• Duration1h 21m
• Budget?
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.261
  44 reviews
• Productions

  Hammer Film Productions