Robert Mitchum
Rev. Harry Powell
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Synopsis. During the Depression of the 1930s, Preacher Harry Powell, a murderous, self-proclaimed "man of the cloth," travels throughout rural West Virginia believing that he is doing the Lord's work by killing rich widows.
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. It's the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills two people.
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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.
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. Davis Grubb. Novel. James Agee. Screenplay. Reviews. Written by John Chard on September 18, 2019.
Oct 27, 2005 · Roger Ebert October 27, 2005. Tweet. Robert Mitchum plays the sinister "Reverend" Harry Powell, and Shelley Winters is the widow he wins over as he seeks money left behind when her husband was executed in "The Night of the Hunter." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch.
Nov 23, 2010 · 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.
