The Movie: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
What Is It?: It’s
a two-day Charles Laughton fest! And today he is behind the camera for the one
and only time. His film in which Robert Mitchum plays a demonic, child-hunting
preacher is appropriately unique... like watching the most beautiful and most
terrifying dream come to life on screen. The riverboat escape sequence may be
cinema’s single finest sequence.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1932, Harry Powers, the real killer who
inspired demonic preacher Harry Powell, is hing-hang-hunged.
