The Night of the Hunter

1955 · 89 min · dir. Charles Laughton

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American Southern Gothic horror-thriller film directed by Charles Laughton in his sole directorial credit and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb. The plot is about Preacher Harry Powell (Mitchum), a serial killer who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.