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- Release date: September 29, 1955
- Director: Charles Laughton
- Screenwriter: James Agee
- Based on the novel of the same name by Davis Grubb
- only film directed by Charles Laughton
- Producer: Paul Gregory
- Distributor: United Artists, MGM
- MPAA rating: Not Rated
- Run time: 93 minutes
- Inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry in 1991Yahoo! Movies: The Night of the Hunter Awards and Nominations
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The Night of the Hunter stars Robert Mitchum as a psychopathic preacher determined to get his hands on a fortune that has been left to two children.
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Plot Summary
Facing execution, Ben Harper (Peter graves) confides to his cell mate Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) that he has hidden a stolen fortune near his home in the midwestern United States. After being released from prison, Powell, posing as a traveling preacher, seeks out Ben's family and marries his widow. Soon, Harper's two children are all that stands between Powell and the money and he will stop at nothing to get it from them.Cast
- Robert Mitchum: Harry Powell
- Shelley Winters: Willa Harper
- Lillian Gish: Rachel Cooper
- James Gleason: Birdie Steptoe
- Evelyn Varden: Icey Spoon
- Peter Graves: Ben Harper
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