The Night of the Hunter update feed
" Notes: Since I kept hearing great things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out. Well, I have to admit it, it is a really odd feature, the only directing effort by Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum’s favorite movies of his one, and, unsurprisingly, it was a critical and financial flop when it was released. Honestly, could you expect such a weird dark tale to reach an audience back in the 50’s? Even myself, 60 years later, I find it difficult to grasp the whole thing. Roger Ebe"
"Directed by: Charles Laughton 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."
" TITLE OF WRITTEN WORK: The Night of the Hunter PUBLISHED FORMAT: novel AUTHOR/CREATOR: Davis Grubb ORIGINAL PUBLICATION YEAR: 1953 HAVE I READ: No NOTES: I spent five years searching for this movie after I first heard about it. I thought it was worth every minute searching for it. "