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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Directed by Charles Laughton
“It’s a hard world for little things.”
Crime, Drama, Thriller · 1h 33m
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Cast
Robert Mitchum
Preacher Harry Powell
Shelley Winters
Willa Harper
Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper
Billy Chapin
John Harper
Sally Jane Bruce
Pearl Harper
James Gleason
Uncle Birdie Steptoe
Evelyn Varden
Icey Spoon
Don Beddoe
Walt Spoon
Peter Graves
Ben Harper
James Griffith
District Attorney
Gloria Castillo
Ruby
Gloria Pall
Burlesque Dancer
Crew
- Director
- Charles Laughton
- Screenplay
- James Agee, Charles Laughton
- Novel
- Davis Grubb
- Director of Photography
- Stanley Cortez
- Original Music Composer
- Walter Schumann
- Editor
- Robert Golden
- Producer
- Paul Gregory
Details
- Release date
- 1955-07-26
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paul Gregory Productions, United Artists
- Budget
- $795,000
- Box office
- $6,750