The Night of the Hunter (4k Restoration)
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70th Anniversary! 4k Restoration!
The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of silent film legend Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.
A box office failure on release, it’s now hailed as one of the most daring American films of the 20th century—an extremely unique vision that has permeated through pop culture until this very day.
1955, 92 minutes, USA, Directed by Charles Laughton, Not Rated
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“Part fairy tale and part bogeyman thriller -- a juicy allegory of evil, greed and innocence, told with an eerie visual poetry.”
– Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -
“One of the greatest of all American films!”
– Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -
“It’s the most haunted and dreamlike of all American films, a gothic backwoods ramble with the Devil at its heels.”
– Tom Huddleston, TIME OUT LONDON -
“A film without precedents, and without any real equals.”
– Dave Kehr, CHICAGO READER
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