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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)
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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."
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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."
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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
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