Robert Mitchum
Rev. Harry Powell
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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.
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.
- (98K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Charles Laughton
- 1955-07-27
Nov 24, 1996 · Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter” (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings.
The Rev. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) is a religious fanatic and serial killer who targets women who use their sexuality to attract men. Serving time in prison for car theft, he meets condemned ...
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- Robert Mitchum
- Charles Laughton
- Mystery & Thriller
May 8, 2020 · The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film with many film nolr undertones, 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 title by Davis Grubb.
- 93 min
- 35K
- Felicity Dungworth
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.
On a diabolical mission to eradicate sin, the misogynistic serial-killer preacher with the sharp switch-blade, Reverend Harry Powell, discovers the secret of the condemned bank robber, Ben Harper.
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