The Night of the Hunter (1955) Reviews & Ratings
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The Night of the Hunter reviews
The Night of the Hunter holds a 7.9/10 average from 1,908 TMDB ratings.
The only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter" is a brilliant allegory about the battle between good and evil. The film failed upon its release but is now considered a classic. Robert Mitchum has never been better as the malevolent "preacher" who marries the hapless Shelley Winters. Mitchum had been in prison with Winters husband and knows there is money to be had from…
— daniel white
Laughton crafts a nightmarish fairytale that stands up now as a true masterpiece. A religious maniac marries an idiotic widow and mother of two children in the hope of finding out where the $10,000 is hidden that the now executed husband and father garnered from a robbery. Upon release back in 1955, the critics of the time kicked this first directorial effort from Charles Laughton to such a degree he never directed…
— John Chard (10/10)
Continuing with my quest to establish where or not Charles Laughton ever made a bad movie, I recently came, again, to this - one of my all time favourite films. I remember cowering behind the sofa as a child when this film came on television late in the evening. It all centres around a robber who has hidden $10,000 somewhere. His jailbird pal "Powell" (Robert Mitchum) is out, masquerading as a puritanical preacher,…
— CinemaSerf (8/10)
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Movies like The Night of the Hunter
If you enjoyed The Night of the Hunter, these movies have a similar feel:
- Brute Force (1947)
- Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
- Little Caesar (1931)
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- Pushover (1954)
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- Appointment with Death (1988)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- The Killer Is Loose (1956)
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