The Night of the Hunter (1955)
With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden
Directed by Charles Laughton
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American Southern Gothic horror-thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb. The plot is about Preacher Harry Powell (Mitchum), a serial killer who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
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