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Friday 25 June
19.00
The Night of the Hunter
(Charles Laughton, USA 1955, 94’)
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Charles Laughton
Night of the Hunter 1955
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The Night of the Hunter, the only film directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton, is a haunting American gothic, a biblical tale of greed, innocence, seduction, sin and corruption. Adapted for the screen by famed author James Agee, it is an imaginatively chilling, experimental and sophisticated work, both ignored and misunderstood at the time of its release. Robert Mitchum plays a schizophrenic preacher who relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father’s stolen fortune. In Mitchum’s career-defining role as Preacher Harry Powell, he wears unforgettable tattoos of two four-letter words on his fingers: LOVE and HATE.
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions), booking recommended
Double Indemnity season
Film
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