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Hollywood · West VirginiaUnited Artists/Getty ImagesIn 1955, director Charles Laughton crafted one of the darkest, strangest fairytales ever to come out of Hollywood. The Night of the Hunter remains visually exquisite and profoundly unsettling. Shortly before Ben Harper is hanged for robbing a bank and killing two men, he hides the $10,000 loot in the toy doll of his young daughter Pearl. Only Pearl and her brother John know the secret – until the deranged serial killer…See the Story
After 70 years, twisted gothic thriller The Night of the Hunter remains as disturbing and beguiling as ever
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