The Night of the Hunter
It’s a hard world for little things.
19551h 33mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Crime
- Thriller
Overview
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- theft
- prison
- psychopath
- murder
- money
- religion
- robbery
- secret
- black and white
- gothic
- widow
- boat
- ex-con
- fanatic
- doll
- preacher
- film noir
- window
- children on the run
- expressionism
- southern gothic
- count
- hymn
- stashed cash
- bluebeard
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 26, 1955
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- United Artists,Paul Gregory Productions
- Cast
- Robert Mitchum,Shelley Winters,Lillian Gish,Billy Chapin,Sally Jane Bruce,James Gleason,Evelyn Varden,Don Beddoe,Peter Graves,James Griffithand 10 more
- Director
- Charles Laughton
- Producer
- Paul Gregory
- Cinematography
- Stanley Cortez
- Music
- Walter Schumann
- Budget
- $795,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0048424