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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
8.2
Ratings: 8.2/10 from 38,488 users
Metascore:
99/100
Reviews: 312 user | 124 critic | 6 from Metacritic.com A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. |
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Title: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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Robert Mitchum | ... | |
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Shelley Winters | ... | |
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Lillian Gish | ... | |
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James Gleason | ... | |
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Evelyn Varden | ... | |
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Peter Graves | ... | |
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Don Beddoe | ... | |
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Billy Chapin | ... | |
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Sally Jane Bruce | ... | |
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Gloria Castillo | ... |
Ruby
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Emmett Lynn | ... |
Birdie Steptoe
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Harry Powell marries and murders widows for their money, believing he is helping God do away with women who arouse men's carnal instincts. Arrested for auto theft, he shares a cell with condemned killer Ben Harper and tries to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the $10,000 he stole. Only Ben's nine-year-old son, John and four-year-old daughter, Pearl know the money is in Pearl's doll and they have sworn to their father to keep this secret. After Ben is executed, Preacher goes to Cresap's Landing to court Ben's widow, Willa. He overwhelms her with his Scripture quoting, sermons and hymns, and she agrees to marry him. On their wedding night he tells her they will never have sex because it is sinful. When the depressed, confused, guilty woman catches him trying to force Pearl to reveal the whereabouts of the money, she is resigned to her fate but the children manage to escape downriver, with Preacher following close behind. Written by alfiehitchie
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(Argentina) See more »Also Known As:
La noche del cazador See more »Filming Locations:
CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$795,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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1.66 : 1
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(1887) (uncredited)
Music by Anthony J. Showalter
Text by Elisha A. Hoffman
Sung a cappella by Robert Mitchum often
Also sung a cappella by Lillian Gish See more »
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Robert Mitchum's autobiography contains many spurious accounts of the making of the film; one, for example, concerns director Charles Laughton, and how he supposedly found the script by James Agee totally unacceptable, rewriting it himself. This has been disproved by the discovery of Agee's 293-page first draft, back in 2004, which is, scene-for-scene, the film that Laughton directed. See more »Goofs
Errors in geography: The turtle that John says could be made into soup is actually a desert tortoise, not found in West Virginia/Kentucky. See more »Quotes
Rev. Harry Powell: I can hear you whisperin' children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience children. I'm coming to find you now.See more »
Soundtracks
"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms"(1887) (uncredited)
Music by Anthony J. Showalter
Text by Elisha A. Hoffman
Sung a cappella by Robert Mitchum often
Also sung a cappella by Lillian Gish See more »
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