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The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb.
Walter Schumann. Stanford Houghton. Davis Grubb. Charles Laughton. James Agee. In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
The Night of the Hunter: Directed by Charles Laughton. With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason. A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
The Night of the Hunter - Full Cast & Crew. In the 1930s rural South, a psychotic bogus preacher plots to kill a family of three for money that was hidden on a farm by the two...
The Night of the Hunter creates its own cosmos, with an absent father, a protective mother figure and a horrid devil. In the film's most inspired sequence the children flee from Powell in a small boat and find a brief respite suspended between twinkling stars and the dark river.
Overview. In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money. Charles Laughton. Director, Screenplay.
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A wise matron protects children hiding from a corrupt preacher. Directed by Charles Laughton.
