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The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter
nuar film, thriller, drama
1955
USA
Charles Loton
92 min.
Robert Mitch, Shelley Worms, Lillian Gish, James Gleeson, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddou, Billy Chepin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castillo
The boy John and his sister Pearl was lucky to see how their father was taken away by the police, grabbing him for the robbery and killing of two people. Father is sentenced to death and hung, the children remain inherited by the stolen money that the father hid, taking from John and Perl the word that they will not tell anyone about the cache, even the mother. In prison, he meets the preacher Harry Powel, but in fact - a ruthless killer, obsessed with religion, with the words `love` and `hatred` tattooed on his fingers. Powel decides to get to the cache, and for this he marries a gullible widow ...