The Night of the Hunter

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Plot: In the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the ...( read more  )only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote The African Queen). The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil. Like a nightmarish premonition of stalker movies to come, Night of the Hunter tells the suspenseful tale of a demented preacher (Robert Mitchum, in a performance that prefigures his memorable villain in Cape Fear), who torments a boy and his little sister--even marries their mixed-up mother (Shelley Winters)--because he's certain the kids know where their late bank-robber father hid a stash of stolen money. So dramatic, primal, and unforgettable are its images--the preacher's shadow looming over the children in their bedroom, the magical boat ride down a river whose banks teem with fantastic wildlife, those tattoos of LOVE and HATE on the unholy man's knuckles, the golden locks of a drowned woman waving in the current along with the indigenous plant life in her watery grave--that they're still haunting audiences (and filmmakers) today. --Jim Emerson

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  We watched this at school, and it was so funny everyone was taking the mick outta the little girl, pearl, personally i think she was the scariest! Good film, freaky plot, kinda bad ending. but scared me which is very easy to do !!

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  Billy Chapin
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  Don Beddoe
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  Evelyn Varden
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  Lillian Gish
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  Peter Graves
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  Robert Mitchum
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  Sally Jane Bruce
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  Shelley Winters

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Charles Laughton
• Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Classics
• Released: January 1, 1955
• DVD Released: May 15, 2001

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