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The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
1955 · Directed by Charles Laughton · 93 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller · 37 frames
Tagline
It’s a hard world for little things.
Crew
- Screenplay: Charles Laughton, James Agee
- Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
- Edited by: Robert Golden
- Music: Walter Schumann
- Produced by: Paul Gregory
Cast
- Robert Mitchum as Preacher Harry Powell
- Shelley Winters as Willa Harper
- Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper
- Billy Chapin as John Harper
- Sally Jane Bruce as Pearl Harper
- James Gleason as Uncle Birdie Steptoe
- Evelyn Varden as Icey Spoon
- Don Beddoe as Walt Spoon
- Peter Graves as Ben Harper
- James Griffith as District Attorney
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paul Gregory Productions, United Artists
- Budget: $795,000
- Themes: prison, robbery, based on novel or book, psychopath, widow, boat, fanatic, count, money, film noir
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