The Night of the Hunter (1955)
It’s a hard world for little things.
★ 7.9 / 10 · 1,925 votes on TMDB
Directed by Charles Laughton
What it's about
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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Cast
Robert Mitchum
Preacher Harry Powell
Shelley Winters
Willa Harper
Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper
Billy Chapin
John Harper
Sally Jane Bruce
Pearl Harper
James Gleason
Uncle Birdie Steptoe
Evelyn Varden
Icey Spoon
Don Beddoe
Walt Spoon
Peter Graves
Ben Harper
James Griffith
District Attorney
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