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The Night of the Hunter
1955
· Movie
· 92 min
A
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #233
- IMDb #451
- Google retired #1940
- Rotten Tomatoes #394
- Metacritic #67
- Letterboxd #162
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #666
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #534
- Metacritic Critics #35
- Metacritic Audience #411
- Criticker #153
- Kinopoisk #2030
- AlloCiné #135
- Trakt #881
Every rating
72–97
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 72, highest is Metacritic critics on 97. Critics average 95, everyone else 81.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A sinister preacher with "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on his knuckles marries a vulnerable widow. He is not a man of God but a serial killer searching for a large sum of money hidden by her executed husband, targeting her two young children who know its secret location.
Details
- Director
- Charles Laughton
- Writers
- Charles Laughton, James Agee
- Based on
- The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
- Released
- 26 July 1955
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Budget
- $795.0K
- Box office
- $6.8K
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Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination total
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