MOVIE REVIEW

The Night of the Hunter / 1955

Name: The Night of the Hunter
Director: Charles Laughton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1955
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 7.9

It’s a hard world for little things.

7.9 / 10 (1,817 votes)

93 minutes

DIRECTOR Charles Laughton

WRITERS Charles Laughton, James Agee

CAST Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Don Beddoe, Peter Graves, James Griffith, Gloria Castillo, Gloria Pall, Paul Bryar, Cheryl Callaway, Alexander Campbell

PRODUCTION Paul Gregory Productions, United Artists

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

The Night of the Hunter adalah sebuah Crime, Drama, Thriller yang dirilis pada tahun 1955. “It’s a hard world for little things.” Film ini disutradarai oleh Charles Laughton dan dibintangi oleh Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce.

The Night of the Hunter menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, The Night of the Hunter menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, The Night of the Hunter adalah Crime yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 29, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

daniel white

March 22, 2016

The only film directed by the great English actor Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter" is a brilliant allegory about the battle between good and evil. The film failed upon its release but is now considered a classic. Robert Mitchum has never been better as the malevolent "preacher" who marries the hapless Shelley Winters. Mitchum had been in prison with Winters husband and knows there is money to be had from a robbery the deceased husband committed, but where is it? Though Shelley falls under Mitchum"s twisted religious zeal, her children a little boy and girl instinctively know this...

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John Chard 10/10

September 18, 2019

Laughton crafts a nightmarish fairytale that stands up now as a true masterpiece. A religious maniac marries an idiotic widow and mother of two children in the hope of finding out where the $10,000 is hidden that the now executed husband and father garnered from a robbery. Upon release back in 1955, the critics of the time kicked this first directorial effort from Charles Laughton to such a degree he never directed again. Watching the film now and observing the tide of praise for it as each year goes by, one can only hope that those critics were rounded up...

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CinemaSerf 8/10

March 28, 2023

Continuing with my quest to establish where or not Charles Laughton ever made a bad movie, I recently came, again, to this - one of my all time favourite films. I remember cowering behind the sofa as a child when this film came on television late in the evening. It all centres around a robber who has hidden $10,000 somewhere. His jailbird pal "Powell" (Robert Mitchum) is out, masquerading as a puritanical preacher, and determined to befriend the man's family and to scoop the loot. Shelley Winters is the naive, now widow, "Willa" who falls hook, line and sinker for...

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