Film

The Night of the Hunter

It’s a hard world for little things.

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Top cast

Robert Mitchum

Preacher Harry Powell

Shelley Winters

Willa Harper

Lillian Gish

Rachel Cooper

Billy Chapin

John Harper

Sally Jane Bruce

Pearl Harper

James Gleason

Uncle Birdie Steptoe

Evelyn Varden

Icey Spoon

Don Beddoe

Walt Spoon

Peter Graves

Ben Harper

James Griffith

District Attorney

Gloria Castillo

Ruby

Gloria Pall

Burlesque Dancer

Paul Bryar

Bart (uncredited)

Cheryl Callaway

Mary

Alexander Campbell

Judge

Michael Chapin

Ruby's Boyfriend

Roy Engel

Sheriff

Kay Lavelle

Miz Cunningham

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton, James Agee

Paul Gregory