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The Night Of The Hunter
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.
1 July 1903, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
July 25, 1936 in Hollywood, California, USA
2 December 1948, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 24, 1899 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA
4 April 1890
13 December 1945, Long Beach, California, USA
14 October 1893, Springfield, Ohio, USA
17 June 1901, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
10 July 1903
29 June 1934, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
12 June 1893, Adair, Oklahoma, USA
7 November 1909, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
October 05, 2015
It's overwrought and lurid; the story is grotesque and so are the characters. It's unlike anything else before and since. And that is why this strident psychological horror stands up now as one of the great pieces of American genre cinema.
October 14, 2014
Mitchum gives one of cinema's greatest performances as a demented man who's one part preacher, one part murderer, and totally determined to track down a stash of stolen loot in the possession of two kids.
August 28, 2007
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.
April 18, 2014
A unique blend of fractured fairy tale, Southern gothic grisliness and striking German expressionism, it also has some pitch-black humor thrown in for good measure.
January 26, 2006
It's the most haunted and dreamlike of all American films, a gothic backwoods ramble with the Devil at its heels.
August 28, 2007
Ultimately the source of its style and power is mysterious -- it is a film without precedents, and without any real equals
December 04, 2016
A magnificent example of a movie doing what movies do best: capturing emotions on film and presenting a feverish, imaginative state with the tactile quality of the real.
March 25, 2006
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.
October 28, 2014
Mitchum is a dreamily terrifying presence, partly because he's filmed in menacing silhouette a good quarter of the time.
October 14, 2014
One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains.
October 10, 2014
A classic that is beautifully restored to life, successfully mixing lightness and humour in a dark film that would even have Frankenstein's monster running for cover.
