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 |
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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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