The Night of the Hunter

(1955)

Synopsis

In the 1930s rural South, a psychotic bogus preacher plots to kill a family of three for money that was hidden on a farm by the two children's late father.

Directors

Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory, Stanley Cortez, Robert Golden

Production year

1955

Rating

TV-PG

Studio

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Runtime

93 minutes

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Peter Graves