Overview:
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.| Status: | Released (1955-07-27) |
|---|---|
| Awards: | 2 wins & 1 nomination total |
| Screen: | Davis Grubb, James Agee, Charles Laughton |
| Productions: | Paul Gregory Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 10158: Robert Mitchum - Preacher Harry Powell
- 7632: Shelley Winters - Willa Harper
- 8828: Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper
- 30540: Billy Chapin - John Harper
- 30541: Sally Jane Bruce - Pearl Harper
- 30537: James Gleason - Uncle Birdie Steptoe
- 30538: Evelyn Varden - Icey Spoon
Crews
- 30536: Robert Golden - Editor - Editing
- 30534: Paul Gregory - Producer - Production
- 30533: Davis Grubb - Novel - Writing
- 10921: Charles Laughton - Screenplay - Writing
- 10921: Charles Laughton - Director - Directing
- 30535: Walter Schumann - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 7648: Stanley Cortez - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
daniel white
Review text:
The only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter" is a brilliant allegory about the battle between good and evil. The film failed upon its release but is now considered a classic. Robert Mitchum has never been better as the malevolent "pr ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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Laughton crafts a nightmarish fairytale that stands up now as a true masterpiece. A religious maniac marries an idiotic widow and mother of two children in the hope of finding out where the $10,000 is hidden that the now executed husband and father garnered from a robbery. Upo ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Continuing with my quest to establish where or not Charles Laughton ever made a bad movie, I recently came, again, to this - one of my all time favourite films. I remember cowering behind the sofa as a child when this film came on television late in the evening. It all centres around ....
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