
Variety
The completed product, bewitching at times, loses sustained drive via too many offbeat touches that have a misty effect.
Full reviewClassic, black and white noir starring Robert Mitchum (Cape Fear) as serial-killer clergyman Harry Powell, who marries his cellmate's unsuspecting widow to find a hidden fortune. The novel on which the story is based took inspiration from the true story of Harry Powers, hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children. From the director of Spartacus.
The completed product, bewitching at times, loses sustained drive via too many offbeat touches that have a misty effect.
Full reviewThere's the absolute authority of Mitchum's performance -- easy, charming, infinitely sinister.
Full reviewAll this has been crisply compacted into clear screen drama by the late James Agee and it is put forth under the direction of Mr. Laughton in stark, rigid visual terms.
Full reviewA monochrome masterpiece, pure cinematic alchemy and just about every other superlative that spells genius.
Full reviewThe Night of the Hunter is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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