The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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Cast & Crew.
![Robert Mitchum](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22594-robert-mitchum.webp)
Robert Mitchum
Harry Powell
![Shelley Winters](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/7418-shelley-winters.webp)
Shelley Winters
Willa Harper
![Lillian Gish](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41927-lillian-gish.webp)
Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper
![James Gleason](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27286-james-gleason.webp)
James Gleason
Uncle Birdie Steptoe
![Evelyn Varden](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41928-evelyn-varden.webp)
Evelyn Varden
Icey Spoon
![Peter Graves](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/9063-peter-graves.webp)
Peter Graves
Ben Harper
![Don Beddoe](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/25082-don-beddoe.webp)
Don Beddoe
Walt Spoon
![Billy Chapin](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41929-billy-chapin.webp)
Billy Chapin
John Harper
![Sally Jane Bruce](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41930-sally-jane-bruce.webp)
Sally Jane Bruce
Pearl Harper
![Gloria Castillo](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/41931-gloria-castillo.webp)
Gloria Castillo
Ruby
![James Griffith](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27316-james-griffith.webp)
James Griffith
District Attorney
![Gloria Pall](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/102317-gloria-pall.webp)
Gloria Pall
Burlesque Dancer
![Charles Laughton](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/32681-charles-laughton.webp)
Charles Laughton
Director
![Davis Grubb](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Davis Grubb
Writer
![Paul Bryar](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/21566-paul-bryar.webp)
Paul Bryar
Bart
![James Agee](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/103823-james-agee.webp)
James Agee
Writer
![Cheryl Callaway](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Cheryl Callaway
Mary
![Alexander Campbell](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Alexander Campbell
Judge
![Paul Gregory](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Paul Gregory
Producer
![Walter Schumann](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Walter Schumann
Composer
![Michael Chapin](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/99723-michael-chapin.webp)
Michael Chapin
Ruby's Boyfriend
![Stanley Cortez](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/155925-stanley-cortez.webp)
Stanley Cortez
Cinematographer
![Roy Engel](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/76670-roy-engel.webp)
Roy Engel
Sheriff
![Robert Golden](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Robert Golden
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Details.
Release DateAugust 26, 1955
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Budget$795,000
Genres
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Wiki.
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers, who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The film's lyrical and expressionistic style, borrowing techniques from silent film, sets it apart from other Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s, and it has influenced such later directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese.Despite receiving negative reviews upon its original release, it has been positively re-evaluated in later decades and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1992. The influential French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma selected The Night of the Hunter in 2008 as the second-best film of all time, behind Citizen Kane. The negative reaction to its premiere made it Charles Laughton's only feature film as director.
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