The Candy Snatchers is a 1973 exploitation crime cult film directed by Guerdon Trueblood. The film was first released in June 1973 and was unofficially inspired by the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle. It stars Susan Sennet as a teenager who is kidnapped and held for ransom by three amateur criminals. The Candy Snatchers received a DVD release in 2005 through Subversive Cinema.
Candy Susan Sennett is a 16yearold girl who is kidnapped on her way home from her Catholic school. Her three kidnappers include Eddy Vince Martorano, his partner Jessie Tiffany Bolling, and Jessies brother, Alan Brad David, who bury her alive in a Southern California field. They give her a pipe for air, expecting they will soon gain a ransom from her father. Unbeknownst to them, Candys burial is witnessed by a young mute child, Sean Newton Christopher Trueblood, who tries to tell his intolerant parents, Dudley Jerry Butts and Audrey Bonnie Boland, about what he saw.The kidnappers contact Candys father, Avery Phillips Ben Piazza, demanding that he pay her ransom in all the diamonds in the jewelry store he manages. However, Avery does not report the abduction to anyone, including Candys mother Katherine Dolores Dorn. ........
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