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	filmscreed: The Reverend
		The Reverend Harry Powell from Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter.
		Powell doesn’t see any problem with robbing and murdering widows to finance his work: It’s God who delivers them to him.
		Winter’s Willa Harper gets the surprise of her life when she learns that Harry is not interested in having sex with her….EVER.
	filmscreed.blogspot.com /2007/07/reverend.html (314 words)

	The Vagrant Café >>> Christian Cinema
		In a particularly disturbing scene, he is leading a rally of believers, and his new wife (the widow of a man he met in prison) gives her testimony: she blames herself and her feminine impulses for her husband's sin and eventual imprisonment.
		Powell's attitude toward woman is part and parcel of his attitude toward sex (the same applies to American Christianity).
		Powell treats sex with the same disgust he has for women, and his reasons are never really made clear.
	www.vagrantcafe.com /christiancinema/2004_01_13_archive.htm (1579 words)

	About Trinity Church in Aiken, SC
		Reverend Word conducted the first service and officially became the pastor of the newly organized church, which was the second point on the Bath Circuit.
		Reverend John W. Williams became minister of the church in 1974; the charge became known as the Aiken Suburban Ministry.
		Reverend Rodney K. Powell was welcomed as pastor of Trinity in June of 1999.
	www.trinityaiken.org /about.htm (1206 words)

	Harry Baden-Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reverend Harry Baden-Powell, FRS (22 August 1796 – 11 June 1860) was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860.
		Referring to "Mr Darwin's masterly volume" and restating his argument that belief in miracles is atheistic, Harry Baden-Powell wrote that the book "must soon bring about an entire revolution in opinion in favour of the grand principle of the self-evolving powers of nature."
		He would have been on the platform at the legendary British Association for the Advancement of Science debate that was a highlight of the reaction to Darwin's theory, but died of a heart attack a fortnight before the meeting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Baden-Powell (356 words)

	Printer Friendly - Lent / Holy Week 2004, VOL III.1
		Harry reports that Willa ran off, "her pitcher's went to the well once too often," he says, in a familiar defense.
		John wakes to the sound of Harry singing the hymn that is his calling card, "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." Harry is on horseback, a dark silhouette against a blank sky.
		Harry, having found Pearl and John and the money he is ready to kill for, is outside of Rachel's house and he is singing, "Leaning, leaning safe and secure from all alarms." His baritone is so slow and smooth that Ruby, one of Rachel's orphans, rises from her bed, entranced.
	www.catholicpeacefellowship.org /print.asp?m=2092 (717 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: The Night of the Hunter (xhtml)
		It is one of the most frightening of movies, with one of the most unforgettable of villains, and on both of those scores it holds up as well after four decades as I expect ``The Silence of the Lambs'' to do many years from now.
		The story, somewhat rearranged: In a prison cell, Harry Powell discovers the secret of a condemned man (Peter Graves), who has hidden $10,000 somewhere around his house.
		They know where the money is, but don't trust the ``preacher.'' But their mother buys his con game and marries him, leading to a tortured wedding night inside a high-gabled bedroom that looks a cross between a chapel and a crypt.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961124/REVIEWS08/401010344/1023 (1154 words)

	About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Reverend John C. and Barbara Phillips was called to be the pastor of this congregation in 1978 and resigned in November 1984.
		Reverend Brice E. and Nancy Casey was called to be the pastor of this congregation in December 1985 and resigned in December 1988.
		Reverend David S. and Jan Dittman was called to be the pastor of this congregation in November 1997, this was a return home for Reverend Dittman.
	www.rtcol.com /~ddittman/about.htm (1578 words)

	The Night of the Hunter DVD - BargainFlix.com - Compare prices from online retailers
		Reverend Harry Powell converses with "God" frequently, and in his mind he really is doing "God's work".
		Powell takes a keen interest in Harper's story and is caught trying to extract the location of the money from his cellmate while Ben is sleeping.
		Most effective and memorable was the scene where John is awaken in the middle of the night by the dreadful and iconic sound of Powell's "Leaning on Jesus" after he and his sister have only just laid down their exhausted heads in a riverside barn's upper hayloft.
	www.bargainflix.com /search/showtitle.asp?id=0001015048-0006&sec=RR&rid=106 (1724 words)

	Untitled Document
		There are no more good or evil acts, only people saved or damned, and therefore friends or enemies." Harry Powell is a hyperbolic caricature of the fervent protestant who hears God speak to him and is thus justified by faith and the sword of the lord against those he perceives, women generically, as unclean.
		In her religion the natural is not in conflict with the spiritual but a sometimes deluded expression of it.
		Another wonderful moment is when Harry Powell and Rachel actually sing in counterpoint which a fortiori emphasizes the different meanings they find in the same words.
	www.en.utexas.edu /alg/events/nightofthehuntertranscript.html (926 words)

	Arts4All: ArtsPass News
		Robert Mitchum plays the Reverend Harry Powell, a self-proclaimed minister of a sect in which he and God are the only members.
		Before the husband was taken away by the police, he gave the two small children, (a boy and a girl) the $10.00 he kept from the crime to hide in a rag doll.
		The Reverend pursues them, but they are protected by Gish who sits on her porch armed with a shotgun.
	www.arts4all.com /newsletter/mfw.asp?mfwid=67 (2038 words)

	St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Tulsa - Parish History
		The Reverend Lois Gatchell, the Venerable Eleanor Hill, the Reverend Mart Schemel, the Reverend Sam Gordin and the Reverend Joe King were ordained deacons while serving St. Dunstan's.
		The Reverend Dr. Raymond Potter was called to be the second full time rector in June of 1995 and held the post from October of 1995 until his resignation in September of 1999.
		The Reverend Cynthia McKenna came to St. Dunstan's in 1996 as Curate, was ordained and served as Assistant Rector until 1998.
	www.stduntulsa.org /history.html (745 words)

	Pugnacity, Power, Prurience, and Greed
		In George Washington Harris' "Parson John Bullen's Lizards" the preacher at the camp meeting is portrayed as a gluttonous man who is far from righteous.
		In another example of a preacher's use of violence, the film "The Night of the Hunter" traces the story of Reverend Harry Powell, played by Robert Mitchum, as he is released from jail only to murder for wealth.
		Although Reverend Powell exhibits this polarity to a much more deadly extent than many modern evangelists, his explanation of the dichotomy is quite instructive.
	writing2.richmond.edu /spirit/archive/adkins.html (7689 words)

	Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the family and to his friends he was known as Stephe (rhymes with Livy).
		His father, Reverend Harry Baden-Powell died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother, Henrietta Grace, a strong woman who was determined that her children would succeed.
		Baden-Powell would say of her in 1933, "The whole secret of my getting on lay with my mother".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell (1989 words)

	goatdog's movies - Top Ten Villains in Film
		Reverend Harry Powell, The Night of the Hunter (1955).
		The most theatrical and creepy of the villains on this list, Robert Mitchum's bad guy from this Brothers Grimm-meets-Flannery O'Connor film is one of the most stylized of screen villains.
		The handsome Mitchum with his perpetually half-closed eyes and his beautiful baritone portrays a sociopatic murderer who believes himself to be a preacher but who uses his "office" to find wealthy widows to rob.
	goatdog.com /articlePage.php?articleID=7 (1091 words)

	Night of the Hunter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The central character to the storyline, Reverend Harry Powell, is what today would be considered the archetypal psychopath.
		In a truly twisted scene, Rev. Powell perverts the embraced idea of a hero riding in on a white horse by using such a steed to stalk John and Pearl, the two children of the robber who have been entrusted with the money, accurately portraying the helplessness of innocence when a greater evil looms.
		Given that montage is essentially conflict (Eisenstein, Beyond the Shot), the river scene builds in intensity as water seems to be moving too slow as Rev. Powell moves inexorably closer, only for the story to culminate rather anti-climactically with him waiting all night in a barn for police to just take him away.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/owl/f03-7487/messages/178.html (389 words)

	Movie Review
		When unctuous Reverend Harry Powell (Mitchum) learns where a criminal has stashed some money, he literally casts an ominous shadow on their Depression-era home.
		After Powell weds Willa, apparently for the children's benefit, he righteously denies her a wedding night, and soon murders her, concealing her body in the river.
		But they still must remain vigilant for the Reverend (“figured I was gone, huh?)" When she and John outsmart him, we learn how effective the Reverend's M.O. has been and how just his punishment.
	www.allwatchers.com /MovieRView.asp?BRID=48028 (222 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - The Night Of The Hunter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While Ben Harper (Peter Graves) sits in jail waiting to be hung for murder, he tells his cellmate, "Reverend" Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), about the $10,000 he hid in his house, and how nobody but his son John (Billy Chapin) and daughter Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce) know where it's stashed.
		He charms the widow Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) into marrying him, then is forced to kill her when she finds out he's just after the money and will do anything (including torture the kids) to get it.
		Robert Mitchum is perfectly cast as the sinister reverend who's had 25 wives, done away with them all, and looking for the next widow that the good Lord will provide.
	www.themoviechicks.com /mar2002/mcrnightofhunter.html (551 words)

	Reverend Joseph N. Evans on Harry Belafonte on National Review Online
		Harry Belafonte started his political activism in the 1960s, as a prominent leader in the civil-rights movement; he was one of its major financial backers, and persuaded other celebrities to contribute as well.
		Harry Belafonte has a great opportunity up in the bully pulpit: He should use it to tell people the truth, instead of passing on to them his own unfortunate miseducation.
		— Reverend Joseph N. Evans serves as senior pastor of Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., one of the city's oldest and largest predominantly African-American congregations.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/evans200510070802.asp (569 words)

	Movie Reviews
		Awash in a terrifying neo-Expressionist atmosphere of dramatic shadows, flattened perspective and floating dead bodies, Charles Laughton's sole directorial effort is regarded as the benchmark for many horror tropes in use today.
		Screen legend Robert Mitchum turns in a chilling performance as sociopath Reverend Harry Powell, an ex-con hell-bent on teasing and terrorizing a missing $10,000 from the widow and children of his dearly departed cellmate.
		The Reverend's less than wholesome intentions come to the fore in a psyche-scarring basement scene, and the two children spend the remainder of the film in a feverish dream-paced canoe flight from their murderous step-father who methodically stalks them on horseback.
	www.tart.org /work/writing/movie_reviews.html (1453 words)

	The Night Of The Hunter
		When he decided to direct his first and only film, Charles Laughton was an accomplished actor respected in the industry with a mantle full of trophies to prove it.
		Enter the wolf, The Reverend Harry Powell, (Robert Mitchum) the words love and hate carved into his fingers.
		A sociopathic woman hating murderer, driving along a country road talking out loud to god as if he was sitting right beside him.
	www.jdmfilmreviews.com /the-night-of-the-hunter (1510 words)

	QueenieChan.com - LiveJournal - Spotlight: Top 10 Movie Villains of All Time
		Other than that, there are no limits on when the movies were made, where they came from or what language they speak (if they speak at all).
		Yes, number 1 on the list is a guy you've probably never heard of.
		The exploits of the sinister and thoroughly evil Reverend Harry Powell, however, has since passed into legend.
	www.livejournal.com /~queeniechan/6477.html (1381 words)

	goatdog's movies - Ten Films I Think You Should See
		Robert Mitchum plays the unforgettable Reverend Harry Powell, a false prophet who marries women for their money and then kills them.
		The story involves Powell's seduction of the widow of an executed felon who hid $10,000 on his farm.
		She seems too weak to stop the monster Powell, but this is a film about the battle between good and evil, and her faith protects them.
	goatdog.com /articlePage.php?articleID=1 (1953 words)

	AFI’s Top 50 Movie Villains of All Time 21-30 - Movie Mistakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1955’s “The Night of the Hunter”, Robert Mitchum plays Reverend Harry Powell, a man who is released from prison.
		However, Powell decides to find the money hidden by his former cellmate and is determined that no one will get in his way.
		Although most people are familiar with De Niro’s portrayal of Max Cady in the 1991 version of “Cape Fear”, it was Robert Mitchum’s work in the 1962 original version that made the character a true villain.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art34590.asp (614 words)

	Little Geneva - Reformed Confederate Theocrats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wouldn’t the Reverend Doctor be saddened by this focus on the color of skin and sex organs?
		"Harry [loves] to slander by using soundbites, jokes and lies to make others look evil." We do like to joke around, but the pillows really were for sale at the Reformation Day celebration in Mendota on November 5.
		All I said about them is that they "are not Photoshopped and are actually sold at RC’s church." Maybe I should have said they were sold at the church, but it seems that yet again I am being accused of slander, when in fact I am the victim of slander.
	littlegeneva.com /index.php (9085 words)

	Classic Film Guide
		Ben Harper (Graves) has been caught and sentenced to death for murder, but not before he had hidden the $10,000 he received for the crime.
		In prison, Harry Powell, a faux Reverend (Mitchum), learns of this before Harper is executed.
		He is an unusual, frightening character who has L O V E tattooed on the knuckles of one hand, and H A T E on the other.
	www.classicfilmguide.com /index.php?s=essential&item=223 (192 words)

	Robert Mitchum \| Biography (1917-1997)
		Up until Cape Fear (1962), Mitchum had played tough guy heroes and world-weary victims; he provided the dying noir genre with one of its cruelest villains, Max Cady.
		In 1955, Mitchum played one of his most famous and disturbing villains, the psychotic evangelist Reverend Harry Powell, in Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter, a film that was a critical and box-office flop in its first release, but has since become a classic.
		While his professional reputation grew, Mitchum's knack for getting into trouble in his personal life reasserted itself.
	www.leninimports.com /robert_mitchum.html (833 words)

	Charles Darwin - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Church of England scientific establishment reacted against the book, and Darwin's old Cambridge tutors Sedgwick and Henslow expressed their disappointment in him.
		Then seven liberal Anglican theologians including the Reverend Harry Baden-Powell produced a manifesto titled Essays and Reviews which supported the Origin and declared that miracles were irrational, drawing much of the fire away from Darwin.
		The most famous confrontation took place at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Charles_Darwin (5967 words)

	MJ Forums -> AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villians
		I expect Indiana Jones, Robin Hood, Dirty Harry Callahan, Superman and Batman to chart.
		Eastwood's The Man with No Name from the Leone Spaghetti Westerns is not on the list (though Eastwood is on there three times, as Dirty Harry, Josey Wales and Will Munny), but somehow James Bond and Lawrence of Arabia are elligible.
		And for hero I guess I'd be tossed up between Dirty Harry and Good Ol' Indy.
	www.moviejustice.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1432 (1417 words)

	Overview of the History of Mount Shasta
		The classic account of the Russian derivation of the name "Shasta" was by historian Harry Wells.
		He explained in his 1881 History of Siskiyou County that the Russians who settled at Bodega could see Mt. Shasta from the highest mountains of the Coast Range, and called it "Tchastal," or the white and pure mountain.
		The "Shatasla" tribe mentioned by Alexander Henry in 1814, the "Tchastal" Russian name described by Harry Wells in 1881, the "Chastacosta" tribal name described by Swanton, and so on, are all important names which fit into the overall picture of the history of the Mt. Shasta region.
	www.siskiyous.edu /shasta/his/index.htm (8156 words)

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