The Night of the Hunter (1955)

It's in the Doll!

Mr. Powell (Robert Mitchum) follows the children to the cellar where they claim the money is hidden, but he soon discovers that it is stashed inside a doll.

Directed by Charles Laughton, Terry Sanders, and Robert Mitchum.

© MGM 2013

Released in 1955 by MGM.

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  • setting: Basement
  • theme: Distrust
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  • theme: Deception
  • actor: Sally Jane Bruce
  • actor: Robert Mitchum
  • actor: Billy Chapin
  • director: Charles Laughton
  • director: Terry Sanders
  • director: Robert Mitchum
  • producer: Paul Gregory
  • cinematographer: Stanley Cortez
  • composer: Walter Schumann
  • editor: Robert Golden
  • role-name: Pearl Harper
  • role-name: Harry Powell
  • role-name: John Harper
  • screenwriter: Davis Grubb
  • screenwriter: Charles Laughton
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  • year: 1955
  • studio: MGM

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