February 9, 2010 (XX:5) Charles Laughton, NIGHT of the HUNTER (1955, 92 Min)
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February 9, 2010 (XX:5) Charles Laughton, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955, 92 min) Directed by Charles Laughton Based on the novel by Davis Grubb Screenplay by James Agee and Charles Laughton Produced by Paul Gregory Original Music by Walter Schumann Cinematography by Stanley Cortez Film Editing by Robert Golden Robert Mitchum...Harry Powell Shelley Winters...Willa Harper Lillian Gish...Rachel Cooper James Gleason...Birdie Steptoe Evelyn Varden...Icey Spoon Peter Graves...Ben Harper Don Beddoe...Walt Spoon Billy Chapin...John Harper Sally Jane Bruce...Pearl Harper Gloria Castillo...Ruby A Dream of Kings (1955), The Watchman (1961), The Voices of CHARLES LAUGHTON (July 1, 1899, Scarborough, Yorkshire, Glory (1962), A Tree Full of Stars (1965), Shadow of My Brother England - December 15, 1962, Hollywood, California, cancer of the (1966), The Golden Sickle (1968), Fools' Parade (1969), The gall bladder) appeared in 65 films and tv series, some of which were Barefoot Man (1971), and Ancient Lights (1982). Advise & Consent (1962), Spartacus (1960), "General Electric Theater" (3 episodes, 1957-1959), "Studio 57" (1 episode, 1958), JAMES AGEE (November 27, 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee - May 16, Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Hobson's Choice (1954), Young 1955, New York City, New York, of a heart attack) wrote books, Bess (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952), The screenplays, poems—and he is often credited with inventing Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), The Big Clock (1948), Arch of modern film criticism (he was film critic for both Time and The Triumph (1948), The Paradine Case (1947), Captain Kidd (1945), Nation). He wrote screenplays for Night of the Hunter (1955), The The Canterville Ghost (1944), Forever and a Day (1943), The African Queen (1951), and The Quiet One (1948). His best known Tuttles of Tahiti (1942), It Started with Eve (1941), They Knew book is the posthumously-published A Death in the Family (1957), What They Wanted (1940), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is co-author, with Jamaica Inn (1939), I, Claudius (1937), Rembrandt (1936), Mutiny photographer Walker Evans, of one of the prose masterpieces of on the Bounty (1935), Les misérables (1935), Ruggles of Red Gap 20th century American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1935), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), The Private Life of (1941). Much of work has recently been made available in three Henry VIII. (1933), Wolves (1930), and Blue Bottles (1928). volumes in the the Library of America Series. DAVIS GRUBB (July 23, 1919 - July 24, 1980) also wrote Twelve STANLEY CORTEZ (November 4, 1908, New York City, New York Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural/One Foot in the Grave (UK - December 23, 1997, Hollywood, California, of heart attack) was title) (1964), The Siege of 318: Thirteen Mystical Stories (1978), the cinematographer for 78 films and tv series, some of which were You Never Believe Me and Other Stories (1989), The Night of the Un autre homme, une autre chance/ Another Man, Another Chance Hunter (1953) (1977), Doomsday Machine (1972), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), Blue (1968), The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966), The Laughton—NIGHT OF THE HUNTER—2 Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), Young Dillinger (1965), The (1978), Mimì Bluette ... fiore del mio giardino (1977), Le locataire/ Naked Kiss (1964), The Candidate (1964), The Madmen of The Tenant (1976), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Diamonds Mandoras (1963), Shock Corridor (1963), Back Street (1961), Vice (1975), Journey Into Fear (1975), "McCloud" (1 episode, 1974), Raid (1960), Thunder in the Sun (1959), The Three Faces of Eve Cleopatra Jones (1973), Blume in Love (1973), The Poseidon (1957), Man from Del Rio (1956), The Night of the Hunter (1955) Adventure (1972), Bloody Mama (1970), Arthur! Arthur! (1969), The Diamond Queen (1953), Shark River (1953), Abbott and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968), "Batman" (2 episodes, 1966), Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952), Fort Defiance (1951), The Alfie (1966), Harper (1966), A Patch of Blue (1965), A House Is Admiral Was a Lady (1950), The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), Not a Home (1964), Wives and Lovers (1963), The Balcony (1963), Let There Be Light (1946), Since You Went Away (1944), The Lolita (1962), Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), Odds Against Powers Girl (1943), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Badlands Tomorrow (1959), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), "Schlitz of Dakota (1941), San Antonio Rose (1941), The Black Cat (1941), Playhouse of Stars" (1 episode, 1957), "Climax!" (3 episodes, 1954- Margie (1940), They Asked for It (1939), Exposed (1938), Personal 1957), "The United States Steel Hour" (1 episode, 1957), "The Secretary (1938), I Cover the War (1937), and Four Days' Wonder Alcoa Hour" (1 episode, 1957), I Died a Thousand Times (1955), (1936) The Big Knife (1955), I Am a Camera (1955), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Executive Suite (1954), Untamed Frontier (1952), ROBERT MITCHUM Meet Danny Wilson (1951), A Place in the Sun (1951), Winchester (August 6, 1917, '73 (1950), Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949), The Great Gatsby (1949), Bridgeport, Connecticut Red River (1948), A Double Life (1947), Abie's Irish Rose (1946), A - July 1, 1997, Santa Thousand and One Nights (1945), Sailor's Holiday (1944), and Barbara, California, of There's Something About a Soldier (1943). lung cancer and emphysema) appeared in LILLIAN GISH (October 14, 1893, Springfield, Ohio - February 27, 136 films and tv series, 1993, New York City, New York, of heart failure) appeared in 119 some of which were films and tv series, some of which were The Whales of August James Dean: Race with Destiny (1997) (TV), Pakten (1995), Dead (1987), Sweet Liberty (1986), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Man (1995), Les sept péchés capitaux (1992), "African Skies" (17 (1985) (TV), Hobson's Choice (1983) (TV), Hambone and Hillie episodes, 1992), Cape Fear (1991), Waiting for the Wind (1990), (1983), "The Love Boat" (1 episode, 1981), Arsenic and Old Lace "War and Remembrance" (12 episodes, 1988-1989), Scrooged (1969) (TV), The Comedians (1967), "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1988), Thompson's Last Run (1986) (TV), "North and South" (6 (1 episode, 1964), "Mr. Novak" (1 episode, 1963), The Unforgiven episodes, 1985), Promises to Keep (1985) (TV), The Hearst and (1960), "The Alcoa Hour" (1 episode, 1956), The Night of the Davies Affair (1985) (TV), "The Winds of War" (7 episodes, 1983), Hunter (1955), "Robert Montgomery Presents" (2 episodes, 1951- That Championship Season (1982), The Big Sleep (1978), The Last 1954), The Trip to Bountiful (1953) (TV), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Tycoon (1976), Midway (1976), Farewell, My Lovely (1975), The Duel in the Sun (1946), Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942), The Yakuza (1974) , The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Ryan's Scarlet Letter (1926), La boheme (1926), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Daughter (1970), Secret Ceremony (1968), Villa Rides (1968), Man Christ (1925), Romola (1924), The White Sister (1923), Orphans of in the Middle (1963), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Two for the Storm (1921), Way Down East (1920), Broken Blossoms or The the Seesaw (1962), The Longest Day (1962), Cape Fear (1962), The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919), The House Built Upon Sand Sundowners (1960), The Wonderful Country (1959), Thunder Road (1916), Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), (1958), The Enemy Below (1957), Fire Down Below (1957), Daphne and the Pirate (1916), Enoch Arden (1915), The Birth of a Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Foreign Intrigue (1956), The Nation (1915), Lord Chumley (1914), The Green-Eyed Devil Night of the Hunter (1955), Track of the Cat (1954), River of No (1914), The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913), Madonna of the Return (1954), White Witch Doctor (1953), Angel Face (1952), The Storm (1913), So Runs the Way (1913), A Modest Hero (1913), A Lusty Men (1952), One Minute to Zero (1952), Macao (1952), His Woman in the Ultimate (1913), An Indian's Loyalty (1913), During Kind of Woman (1951), Holiday Affair (1949), The Red Pony the Round-Up (1913), The Mothering Heart (1913), A Timely (1949), Blood on the Moon (1948), Rachel and the Stranger (1948), Interception (1913), Just Gold (1913), The House of Darkness Out of the Past (1947), Crossfire (1947), Pursued (1947), Till the (1913), The Lady and the Mouse (1913), The Left-Handed Man End of Time (1946), Story of G.I. Joe (1945), Nevada (1944), Thirty (1913), A Misunderstood Boy (1913), The Unwelcome Guest Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1913), Oil and Water (1913), The Informer (1912), The Musketeers (1944), 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders of Pig Alley (1912), Two Daughters of Eve (1912), and An Unseen (1943), Cry 'Havoc' (1943), Beyond the Last Frontier (1943), The Enemy (1912). Lone Star Trail (1943), Colt Comrades (1943), Leather Burners (1943), Action in the North Atlantic (1943), Hoppy Serves a Writ JAMES GLEASON (May 23, 1882, New York City, New York - (1943), and Saboteur (1942). April 12, 1959, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, of asthma) appeared in 162 films and tv series, some of which were SHELLEY WINTERS (August 18, 1920, St. Louis, Missouri - Money, Women and Guns (1959), The Last Hurrah (1958), Once January 14, 2006, Beverly Hills, California, of heart failure) Upon a Horse... (1958), The Female Animal (1958), "Leave It to appeared in 159 films and tv series, some of which were La bomba Beaver" (1 episode, 1957), "The Ford Television Theatre" (2 (1999), Gideon (1999), "Roseanne" (10 episodes, 1991-1996), The episodes, 1953-1956), "Cheyenne" (1 episode, 1956), "Damon Portrait of a Lady (1996), Backfire! (1995), The Pickle (1993), Runyon Theater" (2 episodes, 1955), The Night of the Hunter Purple People Eater (1988), The Delta Force (1986), Déjà Vu (1955), "The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater" (1 episode, 1955), (1985), Fanny Hill (1983), "The Love Boat" (2 episodes, 1982), Suddenly (1954), What Price Glory (1952), I'll See You in My S.O.B.