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The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American Southern Gothic horror-thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb. The plot is about Preacher Harry Powell (Mitchum), a serial killer who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.
- Director
- Charles Laughton
- Writer
- James Agee · Davis Grubb · Charles Laughton
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- Release date
- 1955 · Released
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Country of origin
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Drama · Crime Thriller · Film Noir
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Die Nacht des Jägers
- Español
- La noche del cazador
- Français
- La Nuit du chasseur
- Italiano
- La morte corre sul fiume
- 日本語
- 狩人の夜
- 한국어
- 사냥꾼의 밤
- Polski
- Noc myśliwego
- Themes
- capital punishment ↗ serial killer ↗
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