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01/04/05
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:40
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: Featuring Robert Mitchum's formidable performance as child-hunting preacher, The Night of the Hunter is a disturbing look at good and evil.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead... [More]
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves
Director: Charles Laughton
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Reviews for The Night of the Hunter
An overlooked gem in the history of American film, this creepy curio incorporates elements of horror, noir, thriller and fairy tale.
09/24/07
Ultimately the source of its style and power is mysterious -- it is a film without precedents, and without any real equals
08/28/07
Top CriticOne of the most frightening of movies.
01/01/00
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03/08/05
Easily ranks among the greatest American films.
12/14/01
Classic film that just hasn't dated very well. Mitchum gives a tremendous performance, but the rest of the movie elements don't hold up so well.
09/27/02
One of the most chilling suspense films ever made, it's also the finest role of Robert Mitchum.
03/21/02
Top Critic[Powell's] glibly superficial moralizing is epitomized by an infantile hand-play… [Gish's character] provides an undistorted counterpoint to Powell's diseased religiosity.
10/17/05
One of the most legitimately scary thrillers ever made.
03/21/05
Corny, yes; pretentious, sure; overwrought, definitely -- but every frame of it is thrilling.
04/21/07
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06/19/05
A monochrome masterpiece, pure cinematic alchemy and just about every other superlative that spells genius.
09/24/07
In the pantheon of great screen villains, none is quite so despicable as Harry Powell, the heavy-lidded serial-killer-turned-preacher played by Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's classic thriller.
12/02/01
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10/08/05
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09/06/03
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02/11/05
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11/12/03
Any actor who wants to play a character with a touch of evil should study [Mitchum's] performance the way a rabbinical student studies the Torah.
10/03/01
I can't think of another film that so deftly established that what you were watching inhabited the space between waking and dreaming.
10/20/02
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