THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves. Many «great movies» are by great directors, but Laughton directed only this one film, which was a critical and commercial failure long overshadowed by his acting career. Many great movies use actors who come draped in respectability and prestige, but Robert Mitchum has always been a raffish outsider, and here he stars in an unforgettable role as a psychopathic preacher in relentless pursuit of two children who have their dead father's stolen fortune hidden in a doll. Many great movies are realistic, but The Night of the Hunter is an expressionistic oddity, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy. What a compelling, frightening and beautiful film it is, and how well it has survived its period. Setting his story in an invented movie world outside conventional realism, Laughton gave it a timelessness. (Roger Ebert)
- Shelley Winters - Ruby
- Robert Mitchum
- Peter Graves - Martin Davis
- Lillian Gish - Victoria Inch
- Billiy Chapin
- Sally Jane Bruce
- James Agee
- Charles Laughton nach einer Vorlage von Davis Grubb
- Stanley Cortez
- Stanford Houghton
- Robert Golden
- Walter Schumann
- Hilyard M. Brown
- Alfred E. Spencer
- Jerry Bos
- Evelyn Carruth
United Artists
