The Night of The Hunter
I love this movie! Flat out LOVE this movie! And here is why...
The Story
To boil down this movie to the simplest of all ways to describe it is a story of good vs. evil or like good ol' Reverend Harry Powell's knuckles say LOVE and HATE. The movie starts out with our main bad guy Reverend Harry Powell traveling the country side having a very strange conversation with God and then makes his way to a gentleman's club but before he could get full show he is arrested for stealing the car we saw him driving in. Cut to two young kids playing with a simple rag doll in a yard when a car pulls up. Out of the car jumps their dad (played by Peter Graves (the pilot from Airplane!) who makes the children to swear to never tell anyone where the money he just stole would be hidden. Guess where that money was put? If you guess that simple little rag doll then you win! After the cash is hidden the dad was arrested and sentenced to hang for deaths of his crime buddies. And wouldn't you know it he ends up sharing a cell with Mr. Powell. Harry gets out of jail and makes it a mission to get that money by any means possible which meant he had to marry Willa Harper, mother of our two hero children. Will it be a happy marriage or will he get that money? Watch the movie to find out because I am not about to spoil this wonderful gem.
The Look
To me this film is a thing about beauty! You can clearly see the influence of German expressionist films. The shots and lighting totally evoke the movies from that time like M and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which is perfect. Amazing! Because by using that method you're creating an experience for the audience that relates the movie to fairy tale. Because that what this movie is, a fairy tale. Harry Powell is the big, bad wolf and the kids are trying to escape him. They way Robert Mitchum is shot sometimes makes him even look like a movie monster from the Universal Monster era that came right before this. Also when the kids are escaping on their boat you are shown journey through some shots that just flat out gorgeous. And there is an underwater shot that is maybe the best shot of the whole picture which you will just have to watch to see.
But anyways, just watch this movie! Seriously!
Here is a link to watch the whole movie in 9 parts...
or better yet buy it!
The Night of The Hunter on DVD!
I love this movie! Flat out LOVE this movie! And here is why...
The Story
To boil down this movie to the simplest of all ways to describe it is a story of good vs. evil or like good ol' Reverend Harry Powell's knuckles say LOVE and HATE. The movie starts out with our main bad guy Reverend Harry Powell traveling the country side having a very strange conversation with God and then makes his way to a gentleman's club but before he could get full show he is arrested for stealing the car we saw him driving in. Cut to two young kids playing with a simple rag doll in a yard when a car pulls up. Out of the car jumps their dad (played by Peter Graves (the pilot from Airplane!) who makes the children to swear to never tell anyone where the money he just stole would be hidden. Guess where that money was put? If you guess that simple little rag doll then you win! After the cash is hidden the dad was arrested and sentenced to hang for deaths of his crime buddies. And wouldn't you know it he ends up sharing a cell with Mr. Powell. Harry gets out of jail and makes it a mission to get that money by any means possible which meant he had to marry Willa Harper, mother of our two hero children. Will it be a happy marriage or will he get that money? Watch the movie to find out because I am not about to spoil this wonderful gem.
The Look
To me this film is a thing about beauty! You can clearly see the influence of German expressionist films. The shots and lighting totally evoke the movies from that time like M and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which is perfect. Amazing! Because by using that method you're creating an experience for the audience that relates the movie to fairy tale. Because that what this movie is, a fairy tale. Harry Powell is the big, bad wolf and the kids are trying to escape him. They way Robert Mitchum is shot sometimes makes him even look like a movie monster from the Universal Monster era that came right before this. Also when the kids are escaping on their boat you are shown journey through some shots that just flat out gorgeous. And there is an underwater shot that is maybe the best shot of the whole picture which you will just have to watch to see.
But anyways, just watch this movie! Seriously!
Here is a link to watch the whole movie in 9 parts...
or better yet buy it!
The Night of The Hunter on DVD!
i am bored now...