Its mise-en-scene sets up the denouement of a intricate plot and terrifying fairy tale story suffused with poetic American melodrama.Ī formal approach to analyze Night of the Hunter is to select the narrative construction as the point of attack because the film closely mirrors the novel and its dialogue. This film is characterized by a slew of meaningful narrative dialogue, approaching the fidelity of the original tale and dispersed through it, the singing of a leitmotif religious hymn. The famous British actor, Charles Laughton, directed this unique, paradoxical film noir, guiding the performances of star players such as Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. In 1954, it was allegedly transformed into a screenplay by James Agee and subsequently made into a film by independent producer Paul Gregory, being released through United Artists in 1955.
Night of the Hunter is based on the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb. Where do murderers go, man! Who’s to doom when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? – Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (epigraph in The Night of the Hunter novel). Charles Laughton’s Uniquely Noir Night of the Hunter (1955)īy David George Menard Volume 24 Issue 5-6-7 / July 2020 25 minutes (6079 words)
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