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The Night of the Hunter

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Charles Laughton

Producer:

Paul Gregory

Writer:

Charles Laughton, James Agee

Release Date:

Jul 26, 1955

Runtime:

1hr 32m

Synopsis

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

Cast

  • Robert Mitchum
  • Shelley Winters
  • Lillian Gish
  • Evelyn Varden
  • Peter Graves
  • James Gleason
  • Billy Chapin
  • Sally Jane Bruce

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Metacritic

97
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Based on 21 Critics
8.3

USER SCORE (135)

Universal acclaim based on 135 Reviews
100

It’s the most haunted and dreamlike of all American films, a gothic backwoods ramble with the Devil at its heels.

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Metacritic review by Tom Huddleston
Tom Huddleston
Time Out London
100

This is the only film Laughton ever directed, and he packed it with a mixture of eerie chills, ingenious suspense, and absurdist humor. It's a genuine classic.

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Metacritic review by David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
100

Laughton understood Agee's proximity to Grimm vaudeville, and fashioned the most intensely expressionistic movie of its day.

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Metacritic review by Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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