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Charles Laughton's first and only film as a director (1955, 93 min.), and an enduring masterpiece—dark, deep, beautiful, aglow. Robert Mitchum, in the role that most fully exploits his ferocious sexuality, is the evil preacher pursuing two orphaned children across a sinister, barren midwest; Lillian Gish is the widow who protects the children, in a depiction of maternal love worthy of her mentor, D.W. Griffith. Laughton's direction has Germanic overtones—not only in the expressionism that occasionally grips the image, but also in a pervasive, brooding romanticism that suggests the Erl-King of Goethe and Schubert. But ultimately the source of its style and power is mysterious—it is a film without precedents, and without any real equals.
Thu 12/3, 7 PM.
Thu 12/3, 7 PM.
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Sorry there are no showtimes for The Night of the Hunter on Sunday, November 22.
The next date The Night of the Hunter is playing is Thursday, December 3.
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