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The Night of the Hunter (1955)

It’s a hard world for little things.

7.9(1,837)1h 33mJuly 26, 1955

Crime Drama Thriller

Charles Laughton

Director

James Agee, Charles Laughton

Writers

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Diary

Overview

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Cast

Robert Mitchum

Preacher Harry Powell

Shelley Winters

Willa Harper

Lillian Gish

Rachel Cooper

Billy Chapin

John Harper

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Sally Jane Bruce

Pearl Harper

James Gleason

Uncle Birdie Steptoe

Evelyn Varden

Icey Spoon

Don Beddoe

Walt Spoon

Peter Graves

Ben Harper

James Griffith

District Attorney

Gloria Castillo

Ruby

Gloria Pall

Burlesque Dancer

Paul Bryar

Bart

Michael Chapin

Ruby's Boyfriend

Frances Morris

Bart's Wife

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: July 26, 1955
Budget: $795,000
Production: Paul Gregory Productions, United Artists
Country: United States of America

Keywords

prisonrobberybased on novel or bookpsychopathwidowboatfanaticcountmoneyfilm noirmurderreligionblack and whitetheftpreachergothicdollhymn

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