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The Night of the Hunter

It’s a hard world for little things.

7.9(1,928)19551h 33m7

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

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Status
Released
Budget
$795K
Box office
$6.8K
Language
English
  • prison
  • robbery
  • based on novel or book
  • psychopath
  • widow
  • boat
  • fanatic
  • count
  • money
  • film noir
  • murder
  • religion

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical26 Jul 1955
    • Theatrical27 Jul 1955
    • TheatricalNew York City, New York29 Sept 1955
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalLondon24 Nov 1955
    • Theatrical12Re-release2 Apr 1999
    • Theatrical12Re-release17 Jan 2014
  • AustraliaAU

    • PhysicalMVHS14 Jul 1992
    • TheatricalMRe-release17 Feb 2020
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical14DVD16 Nov 2010
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-164 Sept 1959
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP11 May 1956
    • TheatricalTPRe-release6 Jul 1994
    • TheatricalTPRe-release13 Apr 2011
    • PremiereAngers European First Film Festival18 Jan 2015
    • TVTPCiné+ Classic27 Sept 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical18West Germany16 Mar 1956
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical19 May 1956
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1210 Nov 1956
    • Theatrical12Re-release5 Apr 2007
    • Physical12DVD7 Jan 2009
  • SpainES

    • TV3 Aug 1970
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1530 Oct 1958
    • Theatrical11Re-release16 Apr 2004
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • Premiere12Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival (Digitally Restored Version)6 Jul 2017

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The Night of the Hunter was released on 26 July 1955.

Audience reviews

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    daniel white

    3/22/2016

    The only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter" is a brilliant allegory about the battle between good and evil. The film failed upon its release but is now considered a classic. Robert Mitchum has never been better as the malevolent "preacher" who marries the hapless Shelley Winters. Mitchum had been in prison with Winters husband and knows there is money to be had fro…

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    John Chard

    9/18/2019

    10/10

    Laughton crafts a nightmarish fairytale that stands up now as a true masterpiece. A religious maniac marries an idiotic widow and mother of two children in the hope of finding out where the $10,000 is hidden that the now executed husband and father garnered from a robbery. Upon release back in 1955, the critics of the time kicked this first directorial effort from Charles Laughton to such a degree he never dir…

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    CinemaSerf

    3/28/2023

    8/10

    Continuing with my quest to establish where or not Charles Laughton ever made a bad movie, I recently came, again, to this - one of my all time favourite films. I remember cowering behind the sofa as a child when this film came on television late in the evening. It all centres around a robber who has hidden $10,000 somewhere. His jailbird pal "Powell" (Robert Mitchum) is out, masquerading as a puritanical preacher, a…

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