Screenwriters: James Agee, Charles Laughton

Producer: Paul Gregory

Co-presented by the Alex Film Society

Charles Laughton’s lone directorial departure, The Night of the Hunter is one of the most chilling and haunting films ever set to celluloid. Robert Mitchum is beyond terrifying as a serial-killing preacher in the Deep South, set on hunting children in his search for fortune. With a striking Southern Gothic atmosphere and stunning black-and-white imagery that will burn itself into your brain, this is one gorgeously twisted masterpiece.

Introduction by Alan K. Rode of the Film Noir Foundation