Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Paul Gregory Productions
The Night of the Hunter
It’s a hard world for little things.
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Runtime:
93
Released:
1955
Rating:
7.865
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Davis Grubb, James Agee, Charles Laughton
FILM OVERVIEW
The Night of the Hunter
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
DIRECTOR
Charles Laughton
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Charles Laughton (Director)
Davis Grubb (Novel)
James Agee (Screenplay)
Charles Laughton (Screenplay)
Paul Gregory (Producer)
Walter Schumann (Original Music Composer)
Stanley Cortez (Director of Photography)
Robert Golden (Editor)
Hilyard M. Brown (Art Direction)
Kay Shea (Hairstylist)
CAST MEMBERS
Robert Mitchum
Billy Chapin
Sally Jane Bruce
Shelley Winters
Lillian Gish
James Gleason
Evelyn Varden
Don Beddoe
Peter Graves
James Griffith
MORE PRODUCTION
Milton Carter (Assistant Director), Ruby Rosenberg (Production Manager), Alfred E. Spencer (Set Decoration), Don L. Cash (Makeup Artist), Stanford Houghton (Sound), Joe LaBella (Property Master), Jerry Bos (Wardrobe Designer), Evelyn Carruth (Wardrobe Assistant), Jack Rabin (Special Effects), Louis DeWitt (Special Effects)
MORE CAST
Gloria Castillo, Gloria Pall, Paul Bryar, Cheryl Callaway, Alexander Campbell, Michael Chapin, Roy Engel, Kay Lavelle, Frances Morris, Rudy Germane
