Six rare images reveal relaxed moments with Robert Mitchum and Charles Laughton during the making of a terrifying American classic.
13 January 2014
With the snap of that clapperboard, actor Robert Mitchum will transform into psychotic, self-styled preacher Harry Powell for a scene of crackling menace in Charles Laughton's visionary 1955 fable The Night of the Hunter.
Adapted by James Agee from Davis Grubb’s extraordinary novel, The Night of the Hunter follows the ruthless efforts of rogue preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) to lay his hands on a fortune stolen by a man he met in prison. He decides to charm the man’s widow (Shelley Winters) and two young children – but reckons without the boy’s resistance…
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Apart from The Magnificent Ambersons, the most exciting experience I have had in the cinema was with Charles Laughton on Night of the Hunter.”Stanley Cortez
The Night of the Hunter was back in cinemas on 17 January 2014.