Directed by:
Charles LaughtonScreenplay:
James AgeeCinematography:
Stanley CortezComposer:
Walter SchumannCast:
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Corey Allen, James Griffith, Gloria Castillo, Don Beddoe (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell, whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters are uncovered by her terrified young children. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Robert Mitchum](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/709/162709963_988ed4.jpg)
Robert Mitchum
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
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![Shelley Winters](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/015/163015971_c58f37.jpg)
Shelley Winters
USA
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
An Average Little Man (1977)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
![Lillian Gish](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267993_5842ea.jpg)
Lillian Gish
USA
Best movies:
The Wind (1928)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
![James Gleason](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/049/262/49262589_97cbf6.jpg)
James Gleason
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Evelyn Varden
USA
Best movies:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Desirée (1954)
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
![Peter Graves](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272857_b1e86d.jpg)
Peter Graves
USA
Best movies:
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
![Corey Allen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273527_3864ad.jpg)
Corey Allen
USA
Best movies:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
![James Griffith](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/712/158712209_15d5e5.jpg)
James Griffith
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
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Gloria Castillo
USA
Best movies:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
![Don Beddoe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000144_c69b10.jpg)
Don Beddoe
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Caged (1950)
Billy Chapin
USA
Best movies:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Violent Saturday (1955)
Casanova Brown (1944)
![Paul Bryar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162627_996bce.gif)
Paul Bryar
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Vertigo (1958)
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![George Wallace](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/618/162618250_9fc16e.jpg)
George Wallace
USA
Best movies:
The Towering Inferno (1974)
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
![John Hamilton](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/443/161443421_1a4fb5.jpg)
John Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
![Emmett Lynn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/245/161245520_30ce89.jpg)
Emmett Lynn
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Tall Target (1951)
![Noble 'Kid' Chissell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/785/161785386_718568.jpg)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Gloria Pall
USA
Best movies:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Kathy Garver
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Invisible Mom (1996)
Sally Jane Bruce
USA
Best movies:
The Night of the Hunter (1955)