w/ opening acoustic set by Jess Matsen (Dream Sick)
The Night of the Hunter was legendary actor Charles Laughton’s only film directing effort. Combining stark American Gothic realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with “good” represented by a couple of unforgettable farm kids and a pious old lady (silent movie star Lillian Gish), and “evil” in the hands of a posturing psychopath (the mesmerizing Robert Mitchum). Co-sponsored by The Hanson Film Institute!
