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Genres:
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Drama /
Film-Noir /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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Charles Laughton
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Actors:
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Peter Graves,
James Gleason,
Don Beddoe,
Evelyn Varden,
Billy Chapin,
Gloria Castillo,
Robert Mitchum,
Shelley Winters,
Lillian Gish
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Duration:
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92 min.
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Rating:
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(8.2/10)125
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Plot Summary:
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Harry Powell marries and murders widows for their funds, believing he is help God do away with women who arouse men's carnal instincts. Arrested on the side of auto theft, he shares a cell with condemned hooligan Ben Harper and tries to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the $10,000 he shawl. Only Ben's nine-year-old son, John and four-year-former daughter, Treasure distinguish the spinach is in Pearl's doll and they have sworn to their procreate to maintenance this secret. After Ben is executed, Evangelist goes to Cresap's Landing to court Ben's widow, Willa. He overwhelms her with his Scr... ipture quoting, sermons and hymns, and she agrees to marry him. On their wedding eventide he tells her they will never have relations because it is sinful. When the depressed, confused, wrong housekeeper catches him tiresome to force Cream to reveal the whereabouts of the moolah, she is resigned to her fate but the children manage to escape downriver, with Divine following close behind.
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The Night of the Hunter
Described past Laughton as a "nightmarish Mother Goose", this profoundly distressing psychodrama significant both the onset and the end of his job as a director. Driven by a performance by Mitchum that goes a desire manner to defining on-wall evil, both mode of expression and tale are utterly compelling throughout. The complicated plot has a logic all its own but the chief assertion follows psychopathic minister Harry Powell (Mitchum) as he searches obsessively for the $10,000 hidden by a condemned find. Marrying then murdering the dead man's the missis (Winters), he swiftly turns his r‚clame to her kids (Chapin and Bruce), pursuing them to a conclusion of stories proportions. Met with bemusement at the time of its release, the creepy at...
The Night of the Hunter
Peculiar, manic fantasy in which evil in the end comes to ill fortune against the forces of sweetness and light (the children, an old lady, water, animals). Although the report does not flow smoothly there are splendidly inspiring moments, and no other film has
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