The Night of the Hunter
1955
It’s a hard world for little things.
Directed by Charles Laughton
User Rating
Intensity
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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- Director
- Charles Laughton
- Written by
- Davis Grubb, Charles Laughton, James Agee
- Produced by
- Paul Gregory
- Composer
- Walter Schumann
- Cinematographer
- Stanley Cortez
- Editor
- Robert Golden
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Language
- en
- TMDB
- 7.9/10 (1,832 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 93% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 97/100
- IMDb
- 8.0/10 (106,383 votes)
Cast
Robert Mitchum
Preacher Harry Powell
Shelley Winters
Willa Harper
Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper
Billy Chapin
John Harper
Sally Jane Bruce
Pearl Harper
James Gleason
Uncle Birdie Steptoe
Evelyn Varden
Icey Spoon
Don Beddoe
Walt Spoon
Peter Graves
Ben Harper
James Griffith
District Attorney
Gloria Castillo
Ruby
Gloria Pall
Burlesque Dancer
Paul Bryar
Bart
Cheryl Callaway
Mary
Alexander Campbell
Judge
Michael Chapin
Ruby's Boyfriend
Roy Engel
Sheriff
Kay Lavelle
Miz Cunningham
Crew
Keywords
Links
Trailer
Podcasts
The Evolution of Horror — FOLK Pt 5: The Night of the Hunter (1955) & Onibaba (1964)
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User Notes
One of the most convincingly //dream-like// films I've ever seen.