The Night of the Hunter (1955)




Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters - The Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum, Sally Jane Bruce - The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter


Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter




In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money. As the children escape down the river, events build to a battle between good and evil.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 3168

Books on The Night of the Hunter

Simon Callow
The Night of the Hunter
London, 2001

Books with substantial mentioning of The Night of the Hunter

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Books with an entry on The Night of the Hunter

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Articles on The Night of the Hunter

Elisabeth Bronfen, Nocturnal Battles Between Good and Evil: A Cross-Mapping of Macbeth and The Night of the Hunter, in: Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann (eds.), Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film, Trier, 2009