The Night of the Hunter

West Virginia hills, summer dusk, a preacher's voice carries. Two children flee through the woods, a stolen fortune and a dead father's secret between them. Laughton's lone directorial effort remains a haunting outlier in 50s American cinema.

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Charles Laughton directed The Night of the Hunter in 1955. See Charles Laughton's full filmography, where to start with Charles Laughton, or where to go after you've seen everything by Charles Laughton.

The Night of the Hunter was released in 1955 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 93 minutes.