The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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Directed by (View all)

Terry Sanders

Robert Mitchum

Starring (View all)

Harry Powell

Willa Harper

Rachel Cooper

Birdie Steptoe

Icey Spoon

Ben Harper

Walt Spoon

John Harper

Written by (View all)

Davis Grubb

(novel)

James Agee

(screenplay)

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A classic and suspenseful masterpiece!

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PvtCaboose91

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"Leaning... leaning... safe and secure from all alarms. Leaning... leaning... leaning on the everlasting arms."

Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter is another definitive example of a monochrome masterpiece tragically overlooked and criticised upon initial release. Director Charles Laughton was reportedly so disappointed and saddened by the film's poor critical and commercial ... read more

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A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

Release date : 24 November 1955
UPC: 027616799425

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"26.3.2013 Rewatch, *½ - ***½. Yeah yeah, that's an three year old rating, don't even ask me why is it so low. I wouldn't know the answer. Of the movie itself, I have nothing new to say. It is in fact most likely the most visually impressive from the American ones I've seen of it's time, with the shadows, horse and man in the distance, woman underwater in the car and sometimes even strangely clear and ghostly-like image. Robert Mitchum pulls on an equally strange performance as well, as he has"

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