Directed by:
Charles LaughtonScreenplay:
James AgeeCinematography:
Stanley CortezComposer:
Walter SchumannCast:
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Corey Allen, James Griffith, Gloria Castillo, Don Beddoe (more)VOD (2)
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The Night of the Hunter - incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed - is truly a stand-alone masterwork. 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. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic. Also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. (Criterion)
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