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The Night of the Hunter

1955 · Charles Laughton

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Harry Powell, a serial killer posing as a preacher, learns from a condemned cellmate that he hid $10,000 and only his two young children know where. Powell marries the man's widow and terrorises the children, who flee down the river and are taken in by the kindly, fierce Rachel Cooper.

Director
Charles Laughton
Studio
Paul Gregory Productions
Starring
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden