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Billy Chapin, Don Beddoe, Evelyn Varden, Gloria Castillo, James Gleason
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.
Id: 10952120
A real classic of American cinema, The night of the Hunter is as beautiful as it is menacing and still to this day has some of the best visual scenes and compositions ever recorded. Brilliant!
Heard about this for years before I got to see it. One of the few films that lives up to its reputation for me. Part crime drama, part fairy tale, part nightmare, two children are threatened by a preacher/serial killer who wants the ill-gotten money their father left with them be...( read more)
This may be one of the most overlooked and under appreciated classics of all time. A box office flop when first released, this film was simply too far ahead of its own era.
Told in a manner that is part film noir and part Gothic horror, the story steadily becomes more nightmari...( read more)
it would have been interesting to see how laughtons career behind the camera would have turned out had he made more than this one film. the cinematography was clearly the films strength, and the moments of tension were built very effectively to create a noir that at moments felt...( read more)
A really good film with fantastic imagery and a tour-de-force performance by Robert Mitchum make this a classic. But it also has one of the worst endings ever with sugary-sweet sentimentality severely marring a tanscendant film-noir
I expected it to be a lot more scary and creepy, so I turned out to be a little bit disappointed. The scenes where Mitchum follows the little children into the boat or the moment where he passes the farm while riding his horse are nevertheless creeping on you like you never exper...( read more)
Masterpiece, it is a film without precedents, pioneer, and without any real equals. Harry Powell is one of the best psychos I've ever seen, It's a hound from hell. One of the best thrillers and film noir, with a wonderful photograpy....( read more)
although it's a tremendously good movie, I felt it was lacking a certain amount of depth. the story and the characters felt very surface-y, and there weren't many details about much of anything or anyone. regardless, Robert Mitchum gives a terrific (albeit a tad shallow) perfor...( read more)
