The Night of The Hunter

The Night of The Hunter

The Night of the Hunter, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed, is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell, whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow are uncovered by her young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this American classic is cinema’s rendering of the battle between good and evil.