The Night of the Hunter

I saw this in my film class, not too long ago, and I enjoyed it. This was a great film that will give you creeps up your spine. This is a great thriller with an excellent script and great acting. This... Full review

Extraordinary, unparalleled, breathtaking ... that's how I would appraise the film's visuals, from DP Stanley Cortez. The images are all in B&W, and many have a noir design straight out of German Expressionism. Sharp angles, high-contrast "hard" lighting, and deep shadows... Full review

Robert Mitchum is the best BAD bad guy ever on film. He can make your skin crawl and your hair stand on end with just a lift of his eye-brow or turn of the body or his quiet deep but frightning... Full review

This is one of the great thrillers of all time although the acting and directing style is probably fairly dated by now. When it was first released, it scared the beejeezus out of me and everyone else around me. Mitchum was... Full review

This movie is like watching a live-action nightmare. No matter what is done, you can't escape Robert Mitchum's character. The movie is filmed dark enough to look like a nightmare. I'd tell you more but I don't want to ruin it... Full review

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... Full review

If I had to describe the movie in one word it would be surrelsitic. The locations though they seem fabricated to the tenth degree do not destract from the main focus which is the endangered kids. We never forget the psychotic... Full review

...and not necessarily in a good way.... I know the picture is well thought of, and I will certainly say this much: if it is a failure - and it may be - it's one of the most outrageously nervy failures... Full review

No remakes could ever be as good as the original. The ending was appropriate for the movie -- you have to understand the boy's character and love for his dad who was taken away to jail in front of him, then... Full review

I was lucky enough to see this in a cinema with a restored print. I had previously caught a snatch of it while channel surfing cable TV, and saw enough in about 30 seconds to realise that this was worth... Full review

Turner Classic Movies tip for Apr. 26, 2009:....Shelley Winters & Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter The film version of Davis Grubb's novel The Night of the Hunter (1955) is unique among American movies;....The only movie directed by the great actor Charles Laughton, it is part fairy tale/part horror story.....Walter Schumann's powerful avant-garde music score was also an invaluable contribution..... ... Full Review

I'm supposed to be watching The Night of the Hunter , a film where Robert Mitchum, well- he loves hate and hates love. It's excruciating to watch Mitchum's knife-wielding preacher tear the family apart-driving his wife to shrill insanity with religious inanities and taking advantage of his position as an adult to threaten the children. ... Full Review

Neglected on its first release, The Night of the Hunter is now deservedly considered as one of the best films ever made. The masterful sinister performance by Mitchum might be the gifted actor's career best. ... Full Review

Neglected on its first release, The Night of the Hunter is now deservedly considered as one of the best films ever made. The masterful sinister performance by Mitchum might be the gifted actor's career best. ... Full Review

Charles Laughton 's "The Night of the Hunter'' (1955) is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings. Yet what a compelling, frightening and beautiful film it is! ... Full Review