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The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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Reviews Counted:261

Fresh:245

Rotten:16

Average Rating:8.2/10

Consensus: Featuring Robert Mitchum's formidable performance as child-hunting preacher, The Night of the Hunter is a disturbing look at good and evil.

Rated: 12A

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:02-04-1999

Synopsis: In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead... [More]

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves

Director: Charles Laughton

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I get a charge out of old films that twist the mid-20th century American Judeo-Christian... More

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The 1955 thriller, The Night of the Hunter stars Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell, a murderous... More

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