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The Night Of The Hunter
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Thu Dec 3
7 pm
None The Night Of The Hunter at Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema
The single greatest directorial one-off in movie history, Charles Laughton's The Night Of The Hunter was such a flop that Laughton—an actor best known for his hearty turns in films like Island Of Lost Souls and Witness For The Prosecution, and his Oscar-winning role in The Private Life Of Henry VIII—never stepped behind the camera again. But it's come to be deservedly regarded as one of noir's finest moments, a Biblical struggle between good and evil soaked in the dread-filled atmosphere of a Southern gothic. And then there's Robert Mitchum, the most dangerously seductive of actors, as a gold-digging preacher whose charisma masks the blackest of hearts.
Doc Films - Max Palevsky Cinema Ida Noyes Hall - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The single greatest directorial one-off in movie history, Charles Laughton's The Night Of The Hunter was such a flop that Laughton—an actor best known for his hearty turns in films like Island Of Lost Souls and Witness For The Prosecution, and his Oscar-winning role in The Private Life Of Henry VIII—never stepped behind the camera again. But it's come to be deservedly regarded as one of noir's finest moments, a Biblical struggle between good and evil soaked in the dread-filled atmosphere of a Southern gothic. And then there's Robert Mitchum, the most dangerously seductive of actors, as a gold-digging preacher whose charisma masks the blackest of hearts.
Updated 11/24/2009
