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[REL] The Night Of The Hunter (1955)

Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:57 pm
by loverboy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/

Robert Mitchum stars in this deeply creepy and maddeningly tense 50s thriller as a maniacal preacher who stalks a couple of children as he searches for hidden loot. Strangely fantastical fare directed by actor Charles Laughton
Described by Laughton as a "nightmarish Mother Goose", this profoundly disturbing psychodrama marked both the beginning and the end of his career as a director. Driven by a performance by Mitchum that goes a long way to defining on-screen evil, both tone and tale are absolutely compelling throughout.
The complicated plot has a logic all its own but the central story follows psychopathic preacher Harry Powell (Mitchum) as he searches obsessively for the $10,000 hidden by a condemned convict. Marrying then murdering the dead man's wife (Winters), he swiftly turns his attention to her kids (Chapin and Bruce), pursuing them to a conclusion of mythical proportions.
Met with bemusement at the time of its release, the creepy atmosphere gives rise to some extraordinarily eerie images. There's Shelley Winters, dead in her car at the bottom of a river, hair swirling about her face. There's Mitchum, knuckles tattooed with the words 'Love' and 'Hate', casting a shadow across the kids' bedroom wall. And there's the hallucinatory boat trip with its oversized flora and fauna undertaken by the children as they try to escape.
Drawing on sources as diverse as German Expressionism and rural American fable, this is a strange, tense and at times dream-like film that still sends a shiver down the spine.

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Re: [REL] The Night Of The Hunter (1955)

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:19 pm
by ghost
Here's the BluRay-Rip in 1080p with english and german audio:

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Re: [REL] The Night Of The Hunter (1955)

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:00 pm
by deadman
Thanks. A new one for me. :D