The Night of the Hunter

Flicks with The Film Snob

Jul 28 2025 | 00:03:27

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Show Notes

Charles Laughton was a renowned British actor who made it big in Hollywood, but someday wanted to direct a movie. In 1953, Paul Gregory, a producer and long-time friend, sent him a book by a new writer, Davis Grubb, called “The Night of the Hunter.” Laughton was captivated, and decided he wanted to direct the film. Gregory would produce it. James Agee would write the screenplay. In 1955, United Artists released the finished film, The Night of the Hunter. Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, an itinerant preacher, dressed in black, in early 1930s West Virginia, whom we first hear in…

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