- 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 initiating a Bittersweet Ending to explain that in Real Life, there is much less chance of catching the killers than in fiction, and that affected people would have to live with this notion.
- Fair for Its Day: Even though it may not have been 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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