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The Night of the Hunter
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason View AllCrew
James Agee (Screenplay), Charles Laughton (Screenplay), Charles Laughton (Director) View All
Release: Aug. 26th, 1955
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
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Night of The Hunter remake
"Universal Pictures is remaking “The Night of the Hunter,” a 1955 film adaptation based on the novel by Davis Grubb.
Matt Orton (“Operation Finale”) is penning the script. Though little is k...
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No it doesn't look real, and it doesn't look gritty noir either, it wasn't suppose to...It does look like a storybook, as the children take the same journey Moses did down the Nile.

Based on the novel of the same title, Night of the Huntercasts Robert Mitchum in the lead role as Harry Powell, an unethical preachercum murderer.

While the film is good and full of suspense the one key factor that sells it is Mitchum, who is so devishly good as the preacher who preaches love/hate, written on his fingers.