The Night of the Hunter Screening

​a film by Charles Laughton
part 2 of 4 in our Summer of Shelley series
1955, 92 minutes

​Free to the public. RSVP encouraged due to limited seating.
Doors open at 7pm - Showtime at 7:30pm.

In a faithful adaptation of Davis Grubb’s novel of the same name, director Charles Laughton’s dark fairytale follows two small children as evil encroaches upon their lives in the form of “Preacher” Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), who murders widows for their late husbands’ money. Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) fits his bill, as a vulnerable single mother of two and widow of an executed robber. But only the children know where the robbery money is hidden and Preacher will stop at nothing to get it out of them. Best remembered as Laughton’s only directorial effort and for Stanley Cortez’s entrancing black-and-white cinematography, The Night of the Hunter continues to awe modern audiences and influence filmmakers as disparate as Francis Ford Coppola and Osgood Perkins.