The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Name: The Night of the Hunter
Released: 1955
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

• Movies, Crime, Drama, Thriller

• 93 min

7.9

It’s a hard world for little things.

Directed by: Charles Laughton
Casting: Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Don Beddoe, Peter Graves, James Griffith, Gloria Castillo, Gloria Pall, Paul Bryar, Cheryl Callaway, Alexander Campbell, Michael Chapin, Roy Engel, Kay Lavelle, Frances Morris, Rudy Germane
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1955-08-26
Status: Released

Tags: prison, robbery, based on novel or book, psychopath, widow, boat, fanatic, count, money, film noir, murder, religion, theft, preacher, gothic, doll, hymn, children on the run, ex-con, expressionism, stashed cash, southern gothic, secret, bluebeard

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.