Saturday, March 9, 2013

Night of the Hunter (1955)

219. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)

Pros - Robert Mitchum, Lilian Gish, Some interesting scenes, Photography, Shelly Winters dies again.
Cons - Uneven direction, slow pace at times, Shelly Winters talks too much, Awkward mixture of realism, fantasy, horror, and Macabre humor.

Summary - Not really my kind of movie -odd but interesting. Mitchum does an excellent job as a murderous, phony preacher but is even better (and much more chilling) in "Cape Fear". Gish shines as the good woman who provides a refugee for children. Rating - ***

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