The Night of the Hunter

Released Year: 1955

Certificate: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 minutes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 99

Director: Charles Laughton

Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason

No of Votes: 81980

Gross: 654000

Overview: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

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