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September 13
Fred Films | 7pm
The Night of the Hunter (USA/1955/dir. by Charles Laughton) 93 minutes
The only movie directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter is one of the most beautiful and menacing American films. Robert Mitchum stars as an an ex-con who masquerades as a preacher in order to marry a widow (Shelley Winters) whose children know the hiding place of his former cellmate's loot. The influence of this expressionistic film noir can be seen in the work of a number of the other directors in this series including Terrence Malick, David Lynch, and the Coen Brothers. The critic Michael Atkinson has called Night of the Hunter "the movie freak's definitive love machine: maligned when first released in 1955, hopelessly out of synch with American postwar sensibilities, so aberrant and singular it may properly be called the first Hollywood cult movie."
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