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  The Night of the Hunter (1955)
IMDb > The Night of the Hunter (1955)
As he clearly indicates with "The Night of the Hunter", he had a rare gift for guiding a production into achieving greatness.
"The Night of the Hunter" is ultimately a work of art that moves the viewer because of the tremendous work its director, Charles Laughton, gave to the movie.
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  The Night of the Hunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 novel by American author, Davis Grubb.
Upon its release, Night of the Hunter was not a success with either audiences or critics.
Despite its initial lack of success, Night of the Hunter later found a cult following, and has since been praised as a masterpiece, and one of the finest of film noir.
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 The Night of the Hunter - Simon Callow
The Night of the Hunter - Simon Callow
The Night of the Hunter is a cinematic curiosity.
The Night of the Hunter is a complex film: arty, and yet as straightforwardly terrifying as any contemporary slasher movie.
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 Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter seemed to combine the extreme opposites William Faulkner and pulp horror author H.P. Lovecraft, "mixing an artistic tale of terror with gallows humor and experimental prose." (Server).
Laughton's attraction to The Night of the Hunter was partly his loathing for organized religion.
The Night of the Hunter is a film of exceptionally original photography, some of it obtained by using extremely fast fl and white film, with minimal lighting.
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 Night of the Hunter, The (1955) - Review - Piddleville
I think it's fair to say 1955's The Night of the Hunter is one of the oddest films to ever come out of Hollywood.
The Night of the Hunter is the one and only film directed by actor Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935).
A kind of weird cross between noir and fantasy, it's a movie he described as "a nightmarish sort of Mother Goose tale." That's a pretty accurate description.
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 AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: Night of the Hunter
She witnesses Powell's last night as a mob gathers to lynch him, and then doesn't figure again in the story.
As the night crickets chirp, Gish looks at John standing out on the porch, turns to the children in front of her, glances at the Book, and you see her reconsider which story might reach John.
The film is unthinkable without her; the ending—children safe at last, John allowed to be a child again—would be awash in a cloying mawkishness instead of the sturdy joy that Laughton and Gish exude.
www.avguide.com /film_music/film/reviews/nightofthehunter.jsp   (1852 words)

  
 GreenCine | product main - The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm kids and a pious old lady, and "evil" literally in the hands of a posturing psychopath.
Overlooked on its first release, The Night of the Hunter is now regarded as a classic.
Note: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER was shot in the rare 1.37:1 aspect ratio.
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 The Night of the Hunter Movie: The Night of the Hunter DVD is available from Bestprices.com
Hauntingly directed by Charles Laughton, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is his only credited directorial effort, and it is a tour-de-force.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is the only film directed by actor and stage director Charles Laughton.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1992.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - The Night of the Hunter -- Charles Laughton - DVD - Black & White / Pan & Scan / ...
Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort.
"The Night of the Hunter" is part fairy tale and part bogeyman thriller--a juicy allegory of evil, greed and innocence, told with an eerie visual poetry.
In other sections, "The Night of the Hunter" borrows its visual motifs from the silent films of D.W. Griffith and the German Expressionist cinema of the '20s.
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 MMI Movie Review: The Night of the Hunter
If you see "Night of the Hunter" when you're too young, you'll have recurring nightmares for the rest of your life.
Willa drifts towards her second marriage like a subject under hypnosis, learns on her wedding night that her handsome new husband will not have sex with her and subsequently slides into a religious haze.
When she finally faces the truth about him, he has no further use for her and John is thrust into a life-and-death game with the Preacher, complicated by Sally's adoration of their stepfather.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/nightofthehunte-ms-79955725.html   (368 words)

  
 The Night of the Hunter News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The Night of the Hunter News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Images of Robert Mitchum menacing the children in the 1955 film "The Night of the Hunter" may pop into your head while watching "Undertow" (United Artists) about the ex-convict uncle of two boys hunting them...
The Night of the Hunter, the dark and hopeful musical about good, evil, greed, murder and the resilience of children, plays a world premiere run Sept.
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 Callow, Night of the Hunter
The failure of his film 'The Night of the Hunter' broke Charles Laughton's heart.
CHARLES Laughton's The Night of the Hunter is at the very top of that curious list of one-off films directed by actors, which also includes Marlon Brando's One-eyed Jacks and Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene (The Lost One).
After a number of sucessful productions, it was evident that he was an exceptional theatre director, and his manager, the vigorous, abrasive young agent Paul Gregory, determined that the time was ripe for him to direct on film.
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 filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Night of the Hunter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Forget The Others and The Deep End (which veered toward strained dramatics), The Night of the Hunter is by far the scariest movie I’ve seen so far this year.
Luckily, The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton’s first and final directing gig, has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and is being re-released in October 2001.
Seeing The Night of the Hunter for the first time, I was amazed at how much it crackled with wicked wit and fright and how much intensity was intact.
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 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Charles Laughton's ``The Night of the Hunter'' (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings.
And many great movies are realistic, but ``Night of the Hunter'' is an expressionistic oddity, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy.
Soon Willa Harper is dead, seen in an incredible shot at the wheel of a car at the bottom of the river, her hair drifting with the seaweed.
www.filmnight.org /nighthunter.htm   (1103 words)

  
 the night of the hunter
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Chapel Distribution are proud to announce the exclusive limited release of a new 35mm print of Charles Laughton's stunning classic The Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish.
Famous as actor Laughton's only directorial outing, The Night of the Hunter was originally scripted by James Agee (based on the novel by Davis Grubb).
The Night of the Hunter then continues to screen at ACMI over the Easter long weekend for a limited exclusive re-release season until Friday 25 April (inclusive).
www.acmi.net.au /night_hunter.jsp   (337 words)

  
 The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) is a truly compelling, haunting, and frightening classic masterpiece thriller-fantasy, and the only film ever directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton.
The credits play over a starry night sky (heaven), after which a plain, Bible-fearing farm woman named Rachel (Lillian Gish), dressed in a plain dress with shoulder shawl, magically materializes over the star-filled night background.
On a moonlit night in their bedroom (with strange angles and shadows), John and Pearl are getting ready for bed when Pearl asks for a bedtime story.
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 The Terror Trap: The Night of the Hunter
One night, John and Pearl are frightened by a stranger in their midst.
After leaving his house one night, John finds out from Harry that he is about to marry his mother.
The night owl leers bob-headed around in the dark, aware and particular.
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 slant // magazine.com: Film Review - The Night of the Hunter
Laughton's shadowy compositions and omniscient perspective (see the film's transfixing point-of-view shots) suggests that the film's characters are in the presence of God himself.
Laughton's delirious compositions evoke a Grimm landscape where love is constantly and erratically at war with the forces of hate.
Perverse yet remarkably life-affirming, Night of the Hunter may be the best film ever made about spiritual perseverance.
www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=302   (242 words)

  
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 notcoming.com | The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton’s only film as director, The Night of the Hunter is a strange, mysterious object in the landscape of fifties American cinema.
A study, through the figure of the evil serial-killer preacher Harry Powell, in the horror to be found in man, it is not played as a horror film as such, but rather some kind of bizarre fairy tale.
In this prologue we first get a song evoking the twin themes of dreaming and a child’s fear of the dark (“the hunter in the night”), and then from Miss Cooper a Bible lesson warning against “false prophets” and teaching that no good can ever come from evil.
www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=489   (1575 words)

  
 Night of the Hunter
Though it enjoys a reputation as one of the most frightening films ever made, The Night of the Hunter offers so many layers of enjoyment even after countless viewings that critics' refusal to categorize it as a horror film almost seems understandable.
As visually remarkable as any film ever made, Night of the Hunter uses rich fl and white imagery to stir up primal, haunting imagery that must have made Jean Cocteau jealous.
The chilling tableau of one character chained underwater to a submerged car is just one highlight; other unforgettable touches include Harry's shadow consuming John as he tells Pearl a bedtime story and the suspenseful basement sequence, in which Harry first corners the two children.
www.mondo-digital.com /nightofhunter.html   (549 words)

  
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Night of the Hunter, The (P and S) (1955)
"A finely acted, imaginatively directed chiller with brooding power" (Variety), The Night Of The Hunter stars Mitchum in the most daring and critically acclaimed performance of his career.
Spellbinding, ominous, and hauntingly suspenseful, this extraordinary film noir classic remains "one of the most frightening movies ever made" (Pauline Kael).
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 Amazon.co.uk: The "Night of the Hunter" (Film Classics S.): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director.
It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0851708226   (394 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - The Night of the Hunter Film Notes
	 Charles Laughton never directed another film, perhaps because THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is such an eloquent statement of false romanticism, and such a complete aesthetic vision in itself that it required no further elaboration.
For a single moment in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, each gave voice to the other’s singleness of purpose and strange integrity.
The Night of the Hunter & Cape Fear
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 Amazon.com: Night of the Hunter: Music: Walter Schumann,Charles Laughton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
"The Night of the Hunter," directed by Charles Laughton, was unsuccessful at the box office when it was released in 1955.
Nonetheless, in the capable hands of Laughton and supported by the music of Walter Schumann, "The Night of the Hunter" is riveting, not to be listened to late at night unless you are sure!
"The Night of the Hunter" has now been re-released on CD by Bear Family Records.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009NX6?v=glance   (629 words)

  
 Gerald Peary - film reviews - The Night of the Hunter
In The Night of the Hunter, the protector is a godmother elderly lady, Miss Cooper (Lillian Gish), who takes in lost children and they become part of her "coop";they strut through the streets in a row like little peppers.
Miss Cooper is played by the one-time D.W. Griffith silent star (The Birth of a Nation, Orphans of the Storm, etc.), and her appearance in The Night of the Hunter is total enchantment.
Posited as the antidote to Powell's devilish religiosity, Miss Cooper is pure Christian charity, and the scene in which she and that minister of hate clash with dueling hymns to God is a thrilling manichean battle of wills.
www.geraldpeary.com /reviews/the/night-of-the-hunter.html   (681 words)

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