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The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies

The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies

The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!Aug. 26, 195593 Min.
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Watch: The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies, Full Movie Online – It’s the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills two people. Before he is captured, he is able to convince his adolescent son John and his daughter Pearl not to tell anyone, including their mother Willa, where he hid the money, namely in Pearl’s favorite toy, a doll that she carries everywhere with her. Ben, who is captured, tried and convicted, is sentenced to death. But before he is executed, Ben is in the state penitentiary with a cell mate, a man by the name of Harry Powell, a self-professed man of the cloth, who is really a con man and murderer, swindling lonely women, primarily rich widows, of their money before he kills them. Harry does whatever he can, unsuccessfully, to find out the location of the $10,000 from Ben. After Ben’s execution, Harry decides that Willa will be his next mark, figuring that someone in the family knows where the money is hidden. Despite vowing not to remarry, Willa ends up being easy prey for Harry’s outward evangelicalism; she is a pious woman who feels she needs to atone for her sins which led to Ben doing what he did, especially as Harry presents himself as the preacher who worked at the prison and provided salvation to Ben before his death. Harry quickly figures out that John and Pearl know where the money is. Conversely, John doesn’t trust Harry, John who first tries not to show to Harry that he indeed does know where the money is, and then second constantly reminds a more-trusting Pearl of their promise to their now-deceased father. With Willa devoted to her new husband, John and Pearl need some other adult assistance in evading Harry’s veiled threats, an adult who not only can see the honesty and goodness in children but who can also see a true wolf in sheep’s clothing like Harry..
Plot: 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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Laughton crafts a nightmarish fairytale that stands up now as a true masterpiece.

A religious maniac marries an idiotic widow and mother of two children in the hope of finding out where the $10,000 is hidden that the now executed husband and father garnered from a robbery.

Upon release back in 1955, the critics of the time kicked this first directorial effort from Charles Laughton to such a degree he never directed again. Watching the film now and observing the tide of praise for it as each year goes by, one can only hope that those critics were rounded up and sent to a faraway island to learn about how to view with open heart.

The Night Of The Hunter is to me quite simply one of the greatest films ever laid down on the screen. Firstly you have to ask yourself exactly what genre the film belongs to? That alone should lead you to find out that the film is something different, even unique, because it covers so many bases. Perhaps that is what the critics back then couldn’t quite fathom? Is it Crime? Is it a Thriller? Horror, Drama, Noir, even a terrifying mother goose fairytale (that last one was Laughton’s terming of his masterpiece), truth is, is that it’s a multitude of earthly traits masquerading as a good versus evil parable.

The work on the film is as good as it gets, the direction from Laughton is sublime, his visual style alone makes the film a feast for the sharp eye connoisseur. Observe some of the cutaway sets, take in the expressionist use of shadows, an underwater sequence that is gorgeous yet terrifying at the same time. I dare you to stop the hairs on your neck standing up on end as the silhouette of Mitchum’s evil preacher Harry Powell looms large over the children at bedtime. The film is full of striking images that in themselves are telling the story, witness the pursuit of the children by Powell, the children’s river journey is all dreamy and calm, rabbits, frogs and spiders all are prominent to give the feeling that the kids are safe, cut to Powell all in black, cloaked in evil, always one step away from his prey, perhaps a devil in priests attire?

The acting is top draw, Mitchum (in a career making role) plays it perfect, evil personified mixed with gentle panto fusion at just the right times. Lilian Gish, in what surely has to be one of the great feminine roles of all time, is precious, quite simply precious, while the children are a believable delight because Laughton has got us viewing this uncertain world through such untainted eyes. Crowning it off is the cinematography from Stanley Cortez, I can only describe it as bleakly beautiful, it impacts on the eyes as much as the head as this truly majestic piece of work unfolds.

If you don’t see this as a masterpiece then I urge you to watch it every year until you do. Because when it hits you, that bit that you just didn’t get, it’s the point when you realise why you love cinema after all. 10/10 in every respect.

Review By: John Chard

The only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton, “The Night of the Hunter” is a brilliant allegory about the battle between good and evil. The film failed upon its release but is now considered a classic. Robert Mitchum has never been better as the malevolent “preacher” who marries the hapless Shelley Winters. Mitchum had been in prison with Winters husband and knows there is money to be had from a robbery the deceased husband committed, but where is it? Though Shelley falls under Mitchum”s twisted religious zeal, her children a little boy and girl instinctively know this man is bad, bad, bad. Spoiler alert: Shelley Comes to a watery end and the children must flee from Mitchum who has discovered the money is hidden in little Pearl’s doll. After an arduous journey mainly by boat (the Ohio river?) John and Pearl come to rest in the saintly arms of the magnificent Lillian Gish. But Mitchum is relentless in his pursuit and that is when the eternal battle between good and evil is fought one more time. I will not reveal which side prevails but let’s just say for an old broad Lillian is a formidable opponent. A film I saw as a young boy it left an impression on me that was powerful. A deeply disturbing yet uplifting movie “Night of the Hunter” is not to be missed. This is Gummshoe signing off with two fists up for “Night of the Hunter.”
Review By: daniel white
Suffer the little children
Charles Laughton had only one choice to pay the role of psycho-reverend- conman for his adaption of Night of the Hunter and it was Robert Mitchum. When he’s on the screen Mitchum fills it with malevolence.

It’s an unusual part for Mitchum. Usually he’s terse and laconic in films, but as Harry Powell he’s just full of words. Of course he doesn’t mean anything he says, but he’s just a fountain of speech in Night of the Hunter. Mitchum as he did later on in Thunder Road drew from his hobohemian background of the open road to get his characterization of the Reverend Harry Powell.

Powell who marries and murders women after robbing them blind has more than 25 to his credit in the backwoods of the Ohio river country in West Virginia and Kentucky during the Depression years. But he gets arrested for stealing a car and gets 30 days in jail. Mitchum gets thrown in the same cell as Peter Graves who robbed a bank and killed two people. Graves before he’s caught gave the loot to his son Billy Chapin with a promise not even to tell their mother because she’s not too swift. How right he’s proved to be.

After Graves is hung, Mitchum finishes his sentence with the intention of wooing and marrying widow Shelley Winters. She falls for his line as does her little girl Sally Jane Bruce. But young Billy spots Mitchum for a phony from the gitgo.

The children are in for a lot of heartbreak and tragedy before the film concludes. One of the things I like best about Night is the Hunter is the way Laughton graphically demonstrates the life and poverty of rural America during the Depression. The film is all seen through the eyes of the children as they begin their Huck Finn like odyssey down the Ohio river, escaping from Mitchum.

According to Lee Server’s biography of Mitchum, Laughton while great with the adults had no patience at all with the kids. After a while he let Mitchum actually direct Chapin and Bruce in their scenes.

Lillian Gish gives one of her great performances in the sound era of her career as the farm woman who eventually takes in the kids as she does for a few others. She’s there to be a contrast to Mitchum. Her actions speak her faith a lot louder than Mitchum’s phony ramblings.

Another role I like in this is that of Evelyn Varden. She and husband Don Beddoe employ Shelley Winters at their drug store and she’s all full of concern in a showy pharisee like way for the kids. She’s totally taken with Mitchum, but when he’s unmasked as a phony her rage is something to see on screen.

Sad that Charles Laughton didn’t do more behind the camera than this one film. He and Robert Mitchum formed a mutual admiration society that lasted until Laughton passed on inn 1962.

Still Night of the Hunter is a testament to that mutual admiration.

Review By: bkoganbing
Fantastic
I love film and have done since forever. Night of the Hunter is not quite in my all-time favourite movies, but it is a film I respect very highly. The only disappointment was the final ten minutes, which felt tacked on and didn’t suit the tone of the rest of the movie. Everything else though is fantastic. The story is compelling and managed to chill and shock me, the dialogue is both thoughtful and tense, the lullaby and opening sequence are hard to forget and Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish and Billy Chapin give fine performances. But I will remember Night of the Hunter always for the marvellous cinematography that remains interesting and and beautifully constructed while enhancing the mood, Charles Laughton’s superb direction in one of his best achievements in either acting or directing and Robert Mitchum’s tremendous lead performance(perhaps even a career best). All in all, a fantastic film if one I highly appreciate rather than adore. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Review By: TheLittleSongbird

Other Information:

Original Title The Night of the Hunter
Release Date 1955-08-26
Release Year 1955

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 32 min (92 min)
Budget 795000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director Charles Laughton
Writer Davis Grubb, James Agee, Charles Laughton
Actors Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Country United States
Awards 2 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1 (intended ratio), 1.37 : 1 (negative ratio)
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,490 m (Sweden, cut version) (1958), 2,525 m (Sweden, uncut version) (1955), 2,550 m (1955) (Finland), 2,553 m (Sweden, uncut version) (2004)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Tri-X 5233)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm, 35 mm

The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies
The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies
The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies
The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies
The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies
The Night of the Hunter 1955 123movies
Original title The Night of the Hunter
TMDb Rating 7.897 1,246 votes

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