The Night Of The Hunter, 1955, March 15, 2012

Thursday, March 15 – 7:30 PM
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, 1955, Park Circus, 93 min. Dir. Charles Laughton. Robert Mitchum is astonishing as a wandering sociopathic preacher who uses his fire-and-brimstone fundamentalism to mask his schemes to bilk money from gullible yokels and when that doesn’t work, to blithely rob and murder. Puritanical Shelley Winters, left alone with her son and daughter after husband Peter Graves is sent to jail for robbery, is a perfect target for smooth-talking Mitchum, who has gotten wind of the hidden loot. With Lillian Gish. [35mm] Preston Neal Jones to introduce the screening and show outtakes following the film. Book signing of Jones’Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of The Night of the Hunter at 6:30 PM in the Aero lobby.
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