The Night of the Hunter
1955 | Noir | USA | Directed by Charles Laughton
Overview
Laughton directed once and made a German expressionist nightmare in the American South. Robert Mitchum, with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles, plays a preacher hunting two children for hidden bank money down a river of dreamlike terror. Flopped in 1955, canonized since. The strangest looking American film of its decade, a gothic fairy tale.
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