The Night of the Hunter
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Actor: Cheryl Callaway, Gloria Castillo, Paul Bryar, Robert Mitchum, Shelley WintersDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Night of the Hunter
Movie Review: Beyond All Boundaries Of Bad
Summary: 1 Stars
I consider it my civic duty to warn anybody approaching this master-clunker after having been steered to it by numerous All Time Classic guides. Don't believe it! This movie is just plain awful. One of the worst things I've ever poured down my eyehole. The writing has all the subtlety of a Jimmy Swaggart sermon. The plot is ridiculous from first to last. But what makes it nails-to-chalkboard offensive is the acting. The acting, the acting, oh the agony of the acting! It would have to rise a few levels just to be bad. You might have to watch the movie just to believe how awful it really is. But it will take you days to wash the stain from your soul. You may even swear off movies altogether. You'll certainly have to redefine your views of what Classic and Great mean to movie list compilers (not to mention the majority of parrots here and on IMDB).
Summary of The Night of the Hunter
A psychopathic preacher is in relentless pursuit of two children possessing their dead fathers stolen fortune. Special features: theatrical trailer and behind-the-scenes booklet. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 01/18/2000 Starring: Lillian Gish Shelley Winters Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Charles LaughtonIn the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote The African Queen). The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil. Like a nightmarish premonition of stalker movies to come, Night of the Hunter tells the suspenseful tale of a demented preacher (Robert Mitchum, in a performance that prefigures his memorable villain in Cape Fear), who torments a boy and his little sister--even marries their mixed-up mother (Shelley Winters)--because he's certain the kids know where their late bank-robber father hid a stash of stolen money. So dramatic, primal, and unforgettable are its images--the preacher's shadow looming over the children in their bedroom, the magical boat ride down a river whose banks teem with fantastic wildlife, those tattoos of LOVE and HATE on the unholy man's knuckles, the golden locks of a drowned woman waving in the current along with the indigenous plant life in her watery grave--that they're still haunting audiences (and filmmakers) today. --Jim Emerson
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