Film Noir Classics
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Monday, May 20th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
$18 Public | $12 Members
A mystical slice of Americana noir, revered actor Charles Laughton’s sole directorial effort is
cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. Starring
a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum
as a traveling preacher, whose nefarious motives for marrying a widow, played
by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by
her terrified young children. Tall and handsome Reverend Harry Powell
roams the countryside, preaching the gospel while leaving a trail of murdered
women in his wake. Now his sights are set on the widow of his former cellmate. (USA, 1955, 92 mins, English | Dir. Charles
Laughton)