Story Line
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
“It’s a hard world for little things.”
Top 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
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Rating
7.9/ 10
Release Date
1955-07-26
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
CrimeDramaThriller
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User Reviews (3)
daniel white
No rating•3/22/2016
The only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter" is a brilliant allegory about the battle between good and evil. The film failed upon its release but is now considered a classic. Robert Mitchum has never...
John Chard
10/10
•9/18/2019Laughton crafts a nightmarish fairytale that stands up now as a true masterpiece.
A religious maniac marries an idiotic widow and mother of two children in the hope of finding out where the $10,000 is hidden that the now executed husband and fathe...
CinemaSerf
8/10
•3/28/2023Continuing with my quest to establish where or not Charles Laughton ever made a bad movie, I recently came, again, to this - one of my all time favourite films. I remember cowering behind the sofa as a child when this film came on television late in ...