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Movie Overview
Cast
• Robert Mitchum
• Shelley Winters
• Lillian Gish
Director
• Charles Laughton
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
The Night of the Hunter (1955)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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A+
"Charles Laughton's only directorial effort is a work of inspired brilliance."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

8/10
"Very disturbing."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

4/4
"Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter is the character actor's now-classic jab at godliness gone awry."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

4.5/5
"I can't think of another film that so deftly established that what you were watching inhabited the space between waking and dreaming."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

5/5
"Corny, yes; pretentious, sure; overwrought, definitely -- but every frame of it is thrilling."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

A
"[Powell's] glibly superficial moralizing is epitomized by an infantile hand-play… [Gish's character] provides an undistorted counterpoint to Powell's diseased religiosity."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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