Summary:
Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm kids and a pious old lady, and "evil" literally in the hands of a posturing psychopat... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Robert Mitchum - (Preacher Harry Powell)
Shelley Winters - (Willa Harper)
Lillian Gish - (Rachel Cooper)
Billy Chapin - (John Harper)
Evelyn Varden - (Icey Spoon)
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Review:
Actor Charles Laughton directed only one movie during his 36 years in show business, and he certainly made his lone effort memorable; The Night of the Hunter is a strange, chilling, and uniquely compelling work that resembles no other American film of its era. Superbly shot by ace cinematographer Stanley Cortez, the film was obviously infl... Continue >>

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