The Candy Snatchers is a 1973 American exploitation crime film directed by Guerdon Trueblood.

The picture gained cult film status[2] and received a DVD release in 2005 through Subversive Cinema.

Unbeknownst to them, Sean Newton - an autistic young boy living nearby - witnesses their crime.

The kidnappers contact Candy's father, Avery Phillips, demanding that he pay her ransom with all the diamonds in his jewelry store.

However, Avery stays put and doesn't report the abduction to anyone, including Candy's mother Katherine.

Jessie and Alan intend to remove Candy's ear to present to Avery as leverage, but Eddy prevents this.

Jessie and Alan visit the morgue, where they bribe the coroner Charlie to remove an ear from a cadaver.

But when he goes home, he misunderstands Candy's instructions and uses a police doll to call a Jewish deli in Brooklyn.

Audrey calls Sean with a cowbell, prompting him to make a trail to his house by sliding down the hill on his backside.

Then a gunshot is heard, followed by the sound of the cowbell dropping and Candy's breathing in her underground prison.