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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