The Night of the Hunter
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The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
| Released | 26 Aug 1955 |
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| Genres | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
| Runtime | 1 hour, 33 minutes |
| Countries | United States of America |
Liked by directors
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Fassbinder fell hard for its mixture of demented Americana, Andersen fairy tale, German Expressionism, symbolist painting — that rhyme of seaweed and Shelley Winters’ streaming hair! — and weird D.W. Griffith homages (Lillian Gish as a seraphic saviour lugging a shotgun).
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I was twenty years old when I first saw it. It terrified me then, and still does. The preacher, played by Robert Mitchum, is the most frightening psychopath I’ve ever seen depicted.
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