Daniel and Corky are leaning… leaning… leaning on the everlasting charms of Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s stone-cold masterpiece The Night of the Hunter. Unquestionably the greatest film directed by someone who only made one movie, The Night of the Hunter influenced filmmakers from David Lynch to Spike Lee to Guillermo del Toro. But did your hosts go gentle into that great Night, or do they possess the hearts of a lonely Hunter?
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #25 [tied]
World premiere: July 26, 1955 (Des Moines, IA)
IMDB synopsis: “A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he’d stolen in a robbery.”
Original theatrical trailer for The Night of the Hunter
The story of right-hand left-hand
Daniel’s 2010 review of The Night of the Hunter
A Touch of Zen (1971; Dir.: King Hu)
IMDB synopsis: “A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.”
Our review of A Touch of Zen comes out Tuesday, April 14!
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