* Anvilicious: ''EGAHT'' is a film about raising public awareness about the safety of children without any attempt to be subtle. The novelisation takes it up to eleven by [[spoiler:initiating a BittersweetEnding to explain that in RealLife, there is much less chance of catching the killers than in fiction, and that affected people would have to live with this notion.]]
* FairForItsDay: Even though it may not have been [[Film/{{M}} the first film to do this]], ''EGAHT'' not only did a good job of portraying child murder and paedophilia in a time it was controversial (the late fifties, see ''Boys Beware!''), but even managed to make the killer somewhat sympathetic).
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