The Night of the Hunter
(La noche del cazador)
(USA, 1955) [B/N, 93 m.]
Género: Drama, Cine negro, Thriller.
IMDb
Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum (no acreditado).
Argumento: David Grubb (novela)
Guión: James Agee, Charles Laughton (no acreditado).
Fotografía: Stanley Cortez (B&W).
Música: Walter Schumann.
Producción: Paul Gregory.
Productora: Paul Gregory Productions.
Sinopsis: Tras cometer un atraco, un padre confía el botín a sus dos hijos pequeños, antes de ser detenido. Esperando su ejecución, comparte celda con un siniestro predicador -sobrecogedor Mitchum-, que oye en sueños la historia del dinero. Comienza así una fascinante y terrorífica persecución que cautiva sin descanso por la fuerza de sus imágenes y la potencia del relato. Un maravilloso cuento cinematográfico de una capacidad hipnótica visual nunca superada. Considerada en la actualidad como una indiscutible obra maestra, tuvo muy poco éxito en su estreno, motivo por el que Laughton no volvió a dirigir nunca más. Una joya imprescindible. (Pablo Kurt: FILMAFFINITY)
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"La película más inquietante de la historia del cine" (Carlos Boyero: Diario El Mundo)
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"Drama onírico. (...) Una de las películas más perversas y hermosas de la historia del cine (...) Una de las joyas del cine" (Javier Rioyo: Cinemanía)
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"Maravillosa película que ha ganado categoría con el paso de los años, convirtiéndose así en todo un cláscio del cine mundial" (Fernando Morales: Diario El País)
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"No es sólo un clásico fundamental e inimitable. Es también el más perverso cuento de hadas de las historia del cine (...) asombrosa capacidad creativad de Laughton, el director de una sóla película, el director que logró filmar el miedo" (Miguel Ángel Palomo: Diario El País)
Harry Powell marries and murders widows for their money, believing he is helping God do away with women who arouse men's carnal instincts. Arrested for auto theft, he shares a cell with condemned killer Ben Harper and tries to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the $10,000 he stole. Only Ben's nine-year-old son, John and four-year-old daughter, Pearl know the money is in Pearl's doll and they have sworn to their father to keep this secret. After Ben is executed, Preacher goes to Cresap's Landing to court Ben's widow, Willa. He overwhelms her with his Scripture quoting, sermons and hymns, and she agrees to marry him. On their wedding night he tells her they will never have sex because it is sinful. When the depressed, confused, guilty woman catches him trying to force Pearl to reveal the whereabouts of the money, she is resigned to her fate but the children manage to escape downriver, with Preacher following close behind (IMDb).
AMG SYNOPSIS: Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm kids and a pious old lady, and "evil" literally in the hands of a posturing psychopath. Imprisoned with thief Ben Harper (Peter Graves), phony preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns that Ben has hidden a huge sum of money somewhere near his home. Upon his release, the murderously misogynistic Powell insinuates himself into Ben's home, eventually marrying his widow Willa (Shelley Winters). Eventually all that stands between Powell and the money are Ben's son (Billy Chapin) and daughter (Sally Jane Bruce), who take refuge in a home for abandoned children presided over by the indomitable, scripture-quoting Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish). The war of wills between Mitchum and Gish is the heart of the film's final third, a masterful blend of horror and lyricism. Laughton's tight, disciplined direction is superb -- and all the more impressive when one realizes that he intensely disliked all child actors. The music by Walter Schumann and the cinematography of Stanley Cortez are every bit as brilliant as the contributions by Laughton and Agee. Overlooked on its first release, The Night of the Hunter is now regarded as a classic. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: Actor Charles Laughton directed only one movie during his 36 years in show business, and he certainly made his lone effort memorable; The Night of the Hunter is a strange, chilling, and uniquely compelling work that resembles no other American film of its era. Superbly shot by ace cinematographer Stanley Cortez, the film was obviously influenced by the look of German expressionist cinema, but Cortez and Laughton took the style's visual devices and reshaped them for their own purposes. The result is a film that resembles a reflected dream of childhood, foreign and troubling yet also very beautiful. Laughton drew a stunning performance from Robert Mitchum, who drops his usual veneer of casual cool and becomes disquietingly psychotic man of the cloth Harry Powell; his rapt sermon about the battle between love and hatred, and his wedding night rejection and murder of his new bride (Shelley Winters), rank with the most powerful and deeply etched moments of Mitchum's career. Legend has it that Laughton, who didn't care for children, instructed Mitchum to direct Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce as the luckless Harper siblings, and, if it's true, Mitchum coaxed a pair of unusually naturalistic and affecting performances from his youthful co-stars, who never play "cute." Lillian Gish is a tower of both strength and compassion as Rachel Cooper, the saintly flip side to Mitchum's dark perversity; in a world where even the most loving and honorable adults have gone astray, Rachel alone offers love and protection without judgment to young people who need it, and Powell's venal, misogynist brutality are no match for her spiritual courage. It's a pity that Laughton never followed up on this remarkable debut; many long and successful careers have been launched by movies not half as impressive as The Night of the Hunter. -- Mark Deming
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