The Night Of The Hunter.
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✎ Suggest a correctionReverend Harry Powell is a self-anointed preacher with a penchant for switchblade knives, a misogynist who is attracted to and repulsed by women. He rationalizes his murders by telling himself that he is punishing sinful women and gaining money to preach God's word. In one small town, police arrest Powell for driving a stolen car and he is sentenced to jail. Meanwhile, a local family man named Ben Harper kills two people in a bank robbery and hides the money he has stolen inside his daughter's rag doll. Harper is executed for his crimes, while Powell is released from jail, and then woos and mar
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THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. Paul Gregory Productions. Released by United Artists Corp. 93 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel by Davis Grubb. © Paul Gregory Productions, a limited California partnership, consisting of Gregory Associates, Inc., a California corp., as the general partner, & Paul Gregory & Robert Mitchum, individually, as the limited partners; 27Jul55; LP5150.
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