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La Noche Del Cazador La Noche del Cazador (THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER) Nº 265 (MARZO 2009) Psychokillers SINOPSIS Durante los años de la Depresión, Ben Harper ha sido sentenciado por robo y asesinato a morir ahorcado, pero antes de ser prendido consigue entregar el dinero a sus hijos para que lo escondan. Mien- tras espera su ejecución, comparte celda con Harry Powell, un sinies- tro predicador que asesina mujeres por mandato divino. Powell escu- cha a Harper hablar en sueños del dinero y, tras su liberación, acude al pueblo de éste para seducir a su esposa y hacerse con el botín. FICHA ARTÍSTICA Harry Powell .........................................................ROBERT MITCHUM Rachel Cooper ................................................................ LILLIAN GISH Willa Harper ..........................................................SHELLEY WINTERS John Harper .................................................................. BILLY CHAPIN Pearl Harper........................................................ SALLY JANE BRUCE Ben Harper................................................................. PETER GRAVES ICHA ÉCNICA F T Duración......................... 93 min. Dirección ...CHARLES LAUGHTON Fotografía ...... STANLEY CORTEZ Nacionalidad....... Estados Unidos Productora ........ UNITED ARTISTS Montaje ..........ROBERT GOLDEN Año de Producción .............. 1955 Productor............PAUL GREGORY Música ......WALTER SCHUMANN (Blanco y Negro) Guión...................... JAMES AGEE Dir. Artística ...HILYARD BROWN .....(Basado en la novela de Davis Grubb) Vestuario..................JERRY BOS EL DIRECTOR: CHARLES LAUGHTON Nacido en Yorkshire (Reino Unido) el 1 de julio de 1899, tras combatir en la Primera Guerra Mundial comienza a colaborar en compañías teatrales de aficionados. A mediados de los años 20 ingresa en la “Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts” y poco después debuta en los escenarios londinenses. Durante ese tiempo se inicia en el cine apareciendo en varias produc- ciones británicas, pero será su encuentro con el cineasta Alexander Korda el que le proporcione su gran oportunidad con La Vida Privada de Enrique VIII (1933), trabajo por el que Laughton obtiene el Oscar al Mejor Actor. A partir de ese momento, sus excelentes dotes interpretativas, unidas a su peculiar y desmesurado físico lo convierten en uno de los actores más populares y prestigiosos de la época. Tras el fracaso de su primera y única incursión como director, la espléndida La Noche del Cazador (1955), Laughton dedica la mayoría de su tiempo al teatro, regresando al cine de forma cada vez más esporádica hasta su muerte el 15 de diciembre de 1962 en Los Ángeles (California). FILMOGRAFÍA PRINCIPAL DEL DIRECTOR GALARDONES 1955 La Noche del Cazador (The Night of the Hunter) NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION BOARD 1992 COMENTARIO (Sueña, pequeño, sueña./ Sueña, mi pequeño, sueña./ Basada en la novela homónima del escritor virginiano Davis Grubbs, Aunque el cazador de la noche/ llene de temor tu corazón infantil/ La Noche del Cazador (1955) es un tour de force sobre el eterno el miedo es sólo un sueño./Así que sueña, pequeño, sueña…) enfrentamiento entre el Bien y el Mal, el Amor y el Odio –el Hate and Love grabado en los nudillos del predicador-, a través de un viaje A principios de la década de los cincuenta del siglo XX, en un tiempo iniciático que marca el final de la infancia y la entrada inevitable al en el que América parecía naufragar bajo el delirio paranoico del mundo de los adultos. Un viaje que, sin embargo, se nos muestra en maccarthysmo y la constante amenaza del hongo atómico, la histeria todo momento como una huida: la de dos niños perseguidos por un colectiva comenzó a adueñarse de una sociedad cimentada sobre los fantasma. Una sombra cuya extraña presencia alimenta sus pesadi- temores ancestrales y los principios ultraortodoxos del puritanismo llas infantiles con cánticos y prédicas severas a la sumisión y el anglosajón, cuyo fatalismo bíblico había alimentado el imaginario de temor de Dios. Hänsel y Gretel enfrentados a una nueva encarnación las comunidades rurales desde la llegada del Mayflower a las costas del Mal, en la cual, paradójicamente, la comunidad puritana se norteamericanas. La “caza de brujas” liderada por el gobierno repu- identifica hasta el extremo de erigirle defensor implacable de sus blicano de Dwight Eisenhower se cebaría con virulencia en la indus- valores morales y símbolo de su hipocresía. La presencia enigmática tria cinematográfica y, especialmente, en la diáspora intelectual -a la par que demoníaca- del predicador, empujará a los pequeños europea exiliada del nazismo y liderada por Bertold Brecht y Thomas fugitivos a traspasar la frontera que separa el mundo de los sueños Mann entre otros, señalando al comunismo como el nuevo enemigo y los terrores infantiles de la sucia y caótica realidad social de los al que había que derrotar. Un falso predicador cuya engañosa pro- años de la Depresión, hacia un territorio onírico e inexplorado. Un clama sería lanzada para seducir a feligreses incautos, poniendo a paisaje exuberante de sombras intensas y formas espectrales entre prueba una vez más la fe del pueblo elegido por Dios. las que habitan, ocultos, seres fantásticos y criaturas de la noche. El actor británico Charles Laughton había emigrado desde su país La figura del asesino psicópata cristaliza de este modo los miedos heredados de la infancia, en una clara analogía con el temor hacia el natal a los Estados Unidos a principios de los años treinta, consoli- dándose en las décadas siguientes como uno de los intérpretes más castigo divino, hacia la ira de Dios. El predicador -como se ha seña- reputados de la industria cinematográfica y los escenarios teatrales lado anteriormente- representa los valores morales de la comunidad anglosajones. Su declarada defensa de los valores conservadores de WASP, regida por su advocación a los textos bíblicos hasta el punto la comunidad WASP y su adopción de la nacionalidad estadouniden- de establecer sus códigos sociales bajo los preceptos de Pecado- se junto a su esposa, la también actriz Elsa Lanchester –recordada Castigo-Redención. El elegido por Dios para redimir las almas de los por su mítico papel en La Novia de Frankenstein (1935, James Wha- pecadores, será al mismo tiempo el encargado de ejecutar su ven- le)- le permitirían eludir los ataques del maccarthysmo, a pesar de ganza sobre aquellos que quebrantan sus leyes. El conflicto entre su probada vinculación personal con numerosas víctimas de la inte- culpabilidad y castigo, encontrará en la sexualidad el germen demo- lectualidad norteamericana del momento. Pese a todo, Laughton níaco del pecado, convirtiendo a la mujer en símbolo virginal de sería apartado durante varios años de las listas de actores de Holly- pureza, en un templo que no debe ser profanado jamás por el hom- wood, reconduciendo su carrera hacia la radio y el teatro donde sus bre. En un acto supremo de catarsis mística, el predicador llevará lecturas dramatizadas de fragmentos de obras de Shakespeare, así los ideales puritanos de represión sexual hasta sus últimas conse- como de versículos bíblicos extraídos principalmente del Libro de cuencias, entregando el cuerpo femenino –origen de la lascivia y la Daniel, le convertirán en un personaje enormemente popular en las perdición de la carne- como ofrenda eucarística a Dios, derramando zonas rurales de la América profunda. La fascinación que sobre él la sangre de los impuros sobre el tálamo nupcial convertido en im- ejercieron el paisaje y el primitivo puritanismo de las comunidades provisado altar del sacrificio ritual. La máscara de rectitud y entrega interiores -principalmente en los estados sureños en los que sus a la voluntad divina tras la cual se oculta el verdadero rostro del encendidas representaciones causaron un mayor impacto- le llevarí- asesino, esconde del mismo modo la doble moral y la hipocresía de an por primera y única vez a colocarse tras la cámara para firmar aquellos que la veneran. Por sus frutos los reconoceréis. una obra maestra atemporal, cuya densidad narrativa y visual la hacen aún hoy difícilmente clasificable. SOBRE EL REPARTO ROBERT MITCHUM LILLIAN GISH Nacido el 6 de agosto de 1917 en Connecticut, Robert Charles Dur- Nacida el 14 de octubre de 1893 en Springfield (Ohio), Lillian Diana man Mitchum tuvo una adolescencia conflictiva, siendo recluido por de Giche, comenzó su carrera como actriz en 1899 a los seis años un tribunal de menores en un reformatorio a los 14 años. Tras tra- junto a su hermana Dorothy, después de que su padre las abando- bajar como mecánico, se traslada a Long Beach (California), inician- nara dejando a la familia en una precaria situación económica. do junto a su hermana su carrera como actor en el grupo teatral Juntas trabajarían en teatro hasta 1912, cuando Lillian conoce al Players Guild. Tras aparecer en varios films de bajo presupuesto, en cineasta David Wark Griffith. Tras debutar con Griffith en An Unsee 1945 obtiene una nominación al Oscar al Mejor Actor Secundario Enemy, a la que seguirían doce películas más tan sólo en ese año, por También Somos Seres Humanos (William Wellman). A partir de alcanzaría la fama con El Nacimiento de una Nación (1915). Conver- ese momento, Mitchum se convertiría en una de las principales tida en una estrella del cine mudo, en 1920 dirigiría su primera estrellas de Hollywood gracias a su excelente trabajo en Encrucijada película, Remodeling her Husband, protagonizada por su hermana de Odios (1947, Edward Dmytryk), Retorno al Pasado (1947, Jacques
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