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English. Budget. $600,000. 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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Charles Laughton
- 1955-07-27
Nov 24, 1996 · Roger Ebert November 24, 1996. Tweet. It's a thin line between LOVE and HATE. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
18 Photos. Film Details. Genre. Suspense/Mystery. Action. Adaptation. Classic Hollywood. Thriller. Release Date. Sep 1955. Premiere Information. World premiere in Des Moines, IL: 26 Jul 1955; Los Angeles opening: 26 Aug 1955; New York opening: 29 Sep 1955.
- Charles Laughton, Milton Carter
- Robert Mitchum
Synopsis. Night of the Hunter opens in the stars, where Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish) tells the children (and the audience) a Southern Gothic parable regarding the importance of childhood and the dangers of "wolves in sheep's" clothing. Several children play hide and go seek near a farmhouse.
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Watch The Night of the Hunter with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Fandango at Home, or buy on Fandango at Home. Featuring Robert Mitchum's formidable performance as a...
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- Mystery & Thriller
A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children.