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The Night of the Hunter(Movie, 1955)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Night of the HunterRating: 3.9/5 (with 647647 votes)
The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The plot involves a serial killer (Mitchum) who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father. The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers, who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The film's lyrical and expressionistic style, borrowing techniques from silent film, sets it apart from other Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s, and it has influenced such later directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Altman, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers and Guillermo del Toro. Despite receiving negative reviews upon i... ()
Movie poster of The Night of the Hunter

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Available languages: German, English
Duration: 1h 32min
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Duration: 1h 33min
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About The Night of the Hunter

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

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The Night of the Hunter (1955) Original Trailer with Robert Mitchum(Trailer, 1:52)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on the work of: Davis Grubb ("The Night of the Hunter")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 26 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/16/1956 (World premiere: 08/26/1955)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Mensageiro do Diabo"
"猎人的夜晚"
"雾夜惊魂"
"사냥꾼의 밤"
"Trasdockan"
Budget: 795,000 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:7518, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 03/12/2024