Fresh
One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
The Night of the Hunter
It’s a hard world for little things.
1955 · 1h 33m · Approved
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Charles Laughton
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The Night of the Hunter
Overview
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Director and cast
- Charles Laughton Director
- Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell
- Shelley Winters as Willa Harper
- Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper
- James Gleason as Birdie Steptoe
- Billy Chapin as John Harper
- Sally Jane Bruce as Pearl Harper
- Evelyn Varden as Icey Spoon
- Don Beddoe as Walt Spoon
- Peter Graves Cast
- James Griffith Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ultimately the source of its style and power is mysterious -- it is a film without precedents, and without any real equals
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
This start for Gregory as producer and Laughton as director is rich in promise but the completed product, bewitching at times, loses sustained drive via too many offbeat touches that have a misty effect.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
All this has been crisply compacted into clear screen drama by the late James Agee and it is put forth under the direction of Mr. Laughton in stark, rigid visual terms.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
It's the most haunted and dreamlike of all American films, a gothic backwoods ramble with the Devil at its heels.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
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