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Originally Posted by MrBarlow  Night Of The Hunter. 1955.
A religious fanatic marries a widow to get close to her children in order to find where their father hid a stash of money from a robbery,
This has to be one of Robert Mitchum's finest performance except for Cape Fear, here he plays a pastor who hears a fellow inmate talking about a load of cash and decides he wants it all and goes in search for it. This can be seen as a tense thriller but also a child's nightmare of the boogeyman in human form. Chales laughton was a great actor and just a shame he didn't direct anything else as he had a gift to create such a memorable movie with Stanley Cortez providing great photography and Walter Schumm providing a dark haunting soundtrack.
There was a remake that was released in 1991 starring Richard Chamberlain, even though he is a good actor it doesn't even hold a light to this masterpiece as it can lack the tension that this one had. Attachment 234311 |
I adore this film it beautifully shot and acted and a really tense atmosphere in my top 10 films of all time.