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- 1Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter Still Divides Genre Fans▼The Night of the Hunter (1955) https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nigh t_of_the_Hunter_(film) All-time classic movie, is
Film fans are revisiting The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's 1955 classic starring Robert Mitchum as a sinister preacher. Discussion centres on how to classify the film: is it film noir, Southern Gothic, or something genre-defying of its own? Admirers continue to praise its expressionist lighting, dramatic shadows and dreamlike visual style, which have kept the one-off classic in conversation more than sixty years after its release.