Boys Beware

Boys Beware

196110 min3.4 / 10

A propagandistic 1960s social guidance film that uses fear and paranoia to warn boys about stranger danger, conflating homosexuality with predatory threat.

This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to strangers.

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