Cinemix Film Series: The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, 35mm, 92 mins)
New print! A serial killer and self-styled preacher pursues a gullible widow he hopes to swindle, while her two young children try to keep his tattooed fingers off their father’s stolen loot. Set in West Virginia during the Great Depression, this nightmarish noir thriller stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. “One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains” (Michael Wilmington). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Co-presented with the Yale Film & Media Studies Program.

The “Cinemix” series features stand-alone screenings of standout films, presented by the Yale Film Archive and our colleagues from across campus and beyond.