The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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"It's not hard to see every film directed by Sir Charles Laughton- rent The Night of the Hunter and you observe the great character actor's entire work as auteur in a one stop shop. A lot of people really like this picture and use that tired yet occasionally appropriate phrase "masterpiece" to describe it, but the picture is really quite shallow. It's not hard to see why it's so well respected. It's a very dense movie. With a lot of metaphors, Biblical and otherwise. It's also defiantly formalist at a time when the American film industry was steeped in classicism. Great goals, but the movie so darn stupid. The movie essentially a battle between of total evil, personified by Harry Potter (Robert Mitchum) and complete good personified by Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish). Guess who wins? Potter is a criminal who half believes that he is who pretends to be- a Southern evangelical preacher. While serving a term in jail he learns that his condemned cellmate (Peter Graves) has hidden a great d ... " [More]

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