It stars Robert Mitchum, a vastly underrated actor, as one of Hollywood's most unforgettable villains, "Reverend" Harry Powell, dressed in clerical black and white and with the words "love" and "hate" tattooed on his knuckles.
His decepively sleepy-eyed presence dominates the whole film whether playing emotionally powerful scenes with Shelley Winters as the doomed widow or pretending to play with the children whom he later seeks to kill. Even when he is not on screen we feel his malevolence. His performance in 'The Night of the Hunter' abounds with examples of understatement and subtle awareness of the needs of the part. It is a massive tribute to his skill as an actor.
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