@@schmoboramaI'm curious to what you mean by that exactly, but in your saying that I'm thinking that Blade Runner didn't do that well on initial release but is now considered a masterpiece - similar to this.
1:13 This is an all time classic movie scream. It starts out as kind of a frustrated, disappointed whine but then morphs into that wild angry inhuman roar of psychotic rage and hate. I remember it sent chills down my spine the first time I watched this movie as a kid.
I saw it with my brother for the first time in 1981 at the age of 26 and was blown away by this film and Mitchums performance. We both agreed we had never seen anything like it before. We couldn't believe this was from the mid 50s. No one has ever made anything like this. Memorizing.
Many times the movie has been described as a Brothers Grimm fairy tale in a Southern Gothic setting. I think Laughton intentionally did somethings to subtlely push this. For example Ms. Cooper is the Mother Goose character (she is first introduced marching in line with the children, then when in front of her house there is a literally goose family nearby, at the end of the attempted lynching scene she walks with her brood marching behind her in goose-like formation) in the opening scene she warns of "wolves in sheep's clothing". Powell makes a very dog-like yelp when his fingers are crushed by the door in the basement escape scene, then has a very wolf-like growl when locked in. When Powell is blasted with the shotgun, he flees to the barn while repeatedly yelping in a very dog/wolf like manner. Fun fact: Mitchum conceived of the scream and practiced it before shooting, and showed it off to Laughton during the shoot. Laughton liked it so much he had his composer/audio technicians to work it into the seemless transition to the string swell to start the musical passage. Laughton supposedly went with everything his actors or lead production guys like Cortez suggested. He might have been the most easy-going director ever when his coworkers had a strong sense of what works. True collaborative project, not just a martinet who demanded everybody obey his every command.
@@giampaolofini1535 Thanks for the info. I knew some things about the movie but was unaware of the information you provided. Its a shame that the movie didn't do well and that Laughton took its failure to heart and never directed another movie.
Captivating scene that pulls you in and keeps you there. Its like a dark fairy tale in the way the children escape the villian then are lulled to sleep across the river under the starry night. The animals seem as if they are keeping watch, while Pearl sings that beautiful, yet eerie lullubye. "...one day she flew away...flew away..." That guttural scream? OMG. Then the classic line, "Does he NEVER sleep?" Truly a masterpiece in film.
@@giampaolofini1535 I never put the two together. --You are right. Holy shit, you are right. There are so many little things like that in this film. -Lawton is a hero in so many ways. We need him more in our lives.
@@stefanveatch2 One of the most prominent symbolic motifs is big predators stalking smaller, helpless prey (even in the title and the opening monologue of Ms. Cooper "beware wolves in sheep's clothing"; Powell refers to the children as "little lambs"). Then there's the owl catching the mouse just as Mitchum appears outside of Ms. Cooper's house at night singing "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms". Powell even makes very wolf-like noises (the growl when he's locked in the basement, the injured dog-like yelping when he's shot). Shelley Winters even told Laughton when filming she envisioned her character as "a fly entranced by the spider's web".
@@giampaolofini1535 Ya, it is heavy stuff. All sorts of things going on in that film. I am glad you see them too. That stuff with her under the water was shocking, and so sad. --Laughton was some kind of special caring person. He really did something special for the world. --This may be one of the best films ever. ---One of the roughest films ever. --And we need some lessons from wolves in sheep's clothing.
The musical score for the scenes of the kids floating along is absolutely perfect. Walter Schumann, like man other outstanding composers, knew how to affect the movie audience.
wowser, one of my favourite movies of all time, robert mitchum is wonderful, the river boat scene is amazing, the stars in the night sky are visually stunning, magnificent movie!
The movie is one of my all time favorites. It is beautifully shot so certain scenes stay with me. I can’t imagine it did not get a better reception at the time it was released.
Greatest ten mins in film history. I've watched it a thousand times and it still fills me with horror, bewilderment and an intense childlike fascination. OMG get in that damn boat already!
I was channel surfing many years ago and came across this movie, maybe a quarter into the movie. I watched the remaining of it because I noticed Mitchum was in it. I was shocked I had never seen this before, had never even heard of it. What a great movie. MItchum's performance was nothing like I had ever seen him do before. Just mesmerizing.
The year was 1981. I was a new bride, and my husband was a poor college student. One day while he was in class, I turned on our small 19" black and white TV, more for company than anything else. On one channel I saw a scene from a movie i didn't recognize, a beautiful scene in which two children on a boat were gliding downriver while various small animals watched them from the near bank. Mesmerized, I continued to watch--and was soon scared spitless! It was many years before I had the chance to watch the entire movie, but I never forgot it.
This is a good movie something to put on your mind of real life & what some children go thru. My favorite part is when the little boy say Don't he ever sleep?
I remember I was about 10 years old the first time I saw this movie. It still sends chills up my spine at 1:13 when Harry Powell makes that noise. It seems to start out as a whine but then evolves into an inhuman sounding roar that echoes across the river. Any linger doubts that Powell was a madman could be erased in that scene.
Yeah, shame Laughton didn't direct again. He showed visionary talent in this film. Then again I read in a film book once that Laughton stands alone as a film director, because for masterpieces he's batting 1.000. Perhaps there was consolation in knowing he was, and for me still is, regarded as one of the half-dozen or so greatest actors in screen history.
this scene and this music always makes me cry...I think, like other have said in another vid, this secene is for all the children. One of my favourites. I love this film so much...and it music
This movie despite the cheesy ending was ahead of its time and perhaps that's why critics of the time failed to appreciate this movie (now highly revered among modern fans and critics).Charles Laughton directed this terrific atmospheric movie and I just wish he's had the confidence to do more. Filmed in Black & White with the shading adding to the atmosphere of dread. A superb movie with Mitchum possibly at his best. This is one you ought to keep among your collection. The first time I ever saw the words "Love" and "Hate" tattooed on anyon'es hands.
if anyone is interested, the beginning of this scene (just as they slip through his fingers) coincides with the golden mean (fibonnaci ratio) of the film's runtime (62% of the way through)
I was 15 something the fist time I saw the movie alone, broadcasted on a french chanel no dubbed. This scene on the boat has been carved in my memory, because considering I had never seen before the picture, the moment they'd embarked on the boat and right before the music starts I knew the little girl will sing, the tune will be eerie, I mean its like if I were the director I would have done like this. And the scene acted like I wish. Great movie unforgettable moments.
In terms of visceral frightfulness and intensity, this is one of the performances that marks Mitchum's range as a male lead actor and what puts him in the same category as true greats like James Cagney (e.g. 'White Heat,' 'The Public Enemy') and Gene Hackman (e.g. 'Unforgiven', where he genuinely frightened Morgan Freeman). That scream he makes is like the sound of a devil.
One of the most beautiful scenes ever filmed - incredibly cathartic after what has gone before. What a great (and still sadly undervalued) movie this is!
The scene after they start floating is the like the perfect fusion of peace and tension. I feel like Spielberg drew a lot of influence from this movie and others like it. The juxtaposition with danger + natural beauty feels just like him.
Scariest line... "lookin like she had an extra mouth." Such a good movie... saw a portion of this movie late at night last year... and asked myself "what the heck am I watching" s.c.a.r.y! Never even knew the name... imagine... starting to watch a movie today, then recognizing Mitchum, the kids and the old couple. Got so excited... settled in and was RIVETED!!!! "Children! Chillldren!" Cheers to Charles Laughton (sp?)!!
Esta escena del gran Charles Laughton en "The Night of the hunter", es sin duda una poesía visual, bellísimos encuadres, la inocencia acechada por las criaturas de la noche, que bella película!
Classic example of creative film mastery in this one of a kind work of art. Mix of horrific human suffering, bone chilling insanity, and simple poetry and beauty of existence. Many scenes conjure a magical and translucent artificial reality; such as our imagination or subconscious would fathom. The film strikes a chord with our demons and reminds us of the fragile duality and balance between personal morality and brutal insanity in us all.
This film has been important to me for almost 35 years. This sequence has been, as for many others, a fundamental reason for this. I was just watching the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream with James Cagney (amongst others), also important to me for even longer, and I picked up at the start of the first fairy sequence that they use different animals in the introduction to that dream-like realm, including a frog, an owl, deer and other animals. It strongly reminded me of their use here. I wonder if Laughton was familiar with that film and was inspired, if not consciously, by that sequence. My only comment on this post itself, is that I wish it had continued up until dawn breaks after the boat arrives at Rachel Cooper's farm. There's still no perfect post of this sequence on RUclips (IMHO) - although this is close.
a magical scene - not a perfect film, but one that is underrated and overlooked criminally, nonetheless. a beautiful directorial debut - it's too bad none came after.
First heard it as a radio play way back in '55 or '56 on the old Monitor Radio program . Terrified the livin' bejesus out of me.I was 11 years old and alone . It was summer time and can still remember every damn sound in that old house to this day . One of my favourite movies. And in my opinion , one of the 10 best movies ever made.
Haven’t watched this clip in about a year, but I knew Robert Mitchum let out a horrifying holler. Just now, as I watched, and he did that sound-like an animal-my eyes involuntary bulged and I gasped!! It gets me every time. SO terrifying!!!
I saw this entire movie last night, and his scream 1:16 reminds me a little of Gollum. Oh, and I simply ADORE the design of the barn, so simplistic and child-like. Also it reminds one of silent film.
There's a farm near where I live with a barn and rail fence very similar to the ones in this scene. When I drive by at dusk and see their silhouette against the sky I always think of this film.
Worst part is, stuff like this still happens, though not always to the same extreme. Religious leaders who lie and manipulate to line their pockets, not giving a damn about helping the masses
The Powell character is largely based on the real-life serial killer Harry Powers. But Powers was just a man who preyed upon lonely widows, he didn't pose as a religious authority in real life. Yes, what is portrayed in this movie did actually largely happen (unfoturnately the children in Powers' web didn't escape a terrible fate,) but religion didn't really have much to do with it.
I saw the second half of this movie AMC and It was so good this part with the children is beautifully shot. Cant wait to rent it and watch the whole movie.
So glad this is uploaded! Just finished watching and really hoped this scene would be up, absolutely bone chilling moment that had to be relived. Thanks for the upload, and I hope this being on youtube prompts some people to take a look at this film. Brilliant.
@hammypoos A great example of why you should never listen to critics. A great actor, and could have been a great director too, still at least we have this film, a classic in the true meaning of the word!
The river journey in The Night of the Hunter is one of the most memorable sequences in all cinema, and it's absolutely unique.
I think Coppola movie Blow Out was inspired by this river scene
I think this must have been like the Blade Runner of the 50's :D
@@1985pzaBlow Out was directed by Brian De Palma. Do you mean The Conversation?
@@williamhperkins sorry, Blow Out directed of course by De Palma.
@@schmoboramaI'm curious to what you mean by that exactly, but in your saying that I'm thinking that Blade Runner didn't do that well on initial release but is now considered a masterpiece - similar to this.
Robert Mitchum is like the terminator. Unstoppable, unfatiguable. The movie is just unbelievable. This is my film.
Mitchum would have played the terminator if it was made in the 40s and 50s
1:13 This is an all time classic movie scream. It starts out as kind of a frustrated, disappointed whine but then morphs into that wild angry inhuman roar of psychotic rage and hate. I remember it sent chills down my spine the first time I watched this movie as a kid.
I saw it with my brother for the first time in 1981 at the age of 26 and was blown away by this film and Mitchums performance. We both agreed we had never seen anything like it before. We couldn't believe this was from the mid 50s. No one has ever made anything like this. Memorizing.
Many times the movie has been described as a Brothers Grimm fairy tale in a Southern Gothic setting. I think Laughton intentionally did somethings to subtlely push this. For example Ms. Cooper is the Mother Goose character (she is first introduced marching in line with the children, then when in front of her house there is a literally goose family nearby, at the end of the attempted lynching scene she walks with her brood marching behind her in goose-like formation) in the opening scene she warns of "wolves in sheep's clothing". Powell makes a very dog-like yelp when his fingers are crushed by the door in the basement escape scene, then has a very wolf-like growl when locked in. When Powell is blasted with the shotgun, he flees to the barn while repeatedly yelping in a very dog/wolf like manner. Fun fact: Mitchum conceived of the scream and practiced it before shooting, and showed it off to Laughton during the shoot. Laughton liked it so much he had his composer/audio technicians to work it into the seemless transition to the string swell to start the musical passage. Laughton supposedly went with everything his actors or lead production guys like Cortez suggested. He might have been the most easy-going director ever when his coworkers had a strong sense of what works. True collaborative project, not just a martinet who demanded everybody obey his every command.
@@giampaolofini1535 Thanks for the info. I knew some things about the movie but was unaware of the information you provided. Its a shame that the movie didn't do well and that Laughton took its failure to heart and never directed another movie.
@@TsukiumisGuyit's a shame that he didn't live long enough to see his film finally recognized as the masterpiece it was/is.
This is without a single doubt one of the greatest films of all time, and this segment especially captures that perfectally.
I have to agree.
I will never get over that scream. Gives me the chills.
Night Of The Hunter is one of those incredible films that only get better with time.
9 minutes of cinema at its absolute best - like a dream that stays with you
The greatest ten minutes in cinema history.
Captivating scene that pulls you in and keeps you there. Its like a dark fairy tale in the way the children escape the villian then are lulled to sleep across the river under the starry night. The animals seem as if they are keeping watch, while Pearl sings that beautiful, yet eerie lullubye. "...one day she flew away...flew away..." That guttural scream? OMG. Then the classic line, "Does he NEVER sleep?" Truly a masterpiece in film.
She sings "they [the children] flew away...into the sky" right as their boat is directly beneath a massive spider web. Mind blown?
@@giampaolofini1535 I never put the two together. --You are right. Holy shit, you are right. There are so many little things like that in this film. -Lawton is a hero in so many ways. We need him more in our lives.
@@stefanveatch2 One of the most prominent symbolic motifs is big predators stalking smaller, helpless prey (even in the title and the opening monologue of Ms. Cooper "beware wolves in sheep's clothing"; Powell refers to the children as "little lambs"). Then there's the owl catching the mouse just as Mitchum appears outside of Ms. Cooper's house at night singing "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms". Powell even makes very wolf-like noises (the growl when he's locked in the basement, the injured dog-like yelping when he's shot). Shelley Winters even told Laughton when filming she envisioned her character as "a fly entranced by the spider's web".
@@giampaolofini1535 Ya, it is heavy stuff. All sorts of things going on in that film. I am glad you see them too. That stuff with her under the water was shocking, and so sad. --Laughton was some kind of special caring person. He really did something special for the world. --This may be one of the best films ever. ---One of the roughest films ever. --And we need some lessons from wolves in sheep's clothing.
Agreed 1000%%. This film has a really mesmerising, beautiful quality to it. It's also one of the scariest things ever made.
A total masterpiece, wonderful film
Just the sight of that black silhouette drifting across the hilltop, singing that song would be enough to send anyone packing!
Indeed.
Rather good voice though!
The musical score for the scenes of the kids floating along is absolutely perfect. Walter Schumann, like man other outstanding composers, knew how to affect the movie audience.
wowser, one of my favourite movies of all time, robert mitchum is wonderful, the river boat scene is amazing, the stars in the night sky are visually stunning, magnificent movie!
This is a masterpiece. A mixture of terror and tenderness, there is no other film quite like it.
The movie is one of my all time favorites. It is beautifully shot so certain scenes stay with me. I can’t imagine it did not get a better reception at the time it was released.
Greatest ten mins in film history. I've watched it a thousand times and it still fills me with horror, bewilderment and an intense childlike fascination. OMG get in that damn boat already!
This movie is sooooo good!!!
I love the filming style, the camera angles and the lighting fits the vibe just right.
This is my favorite Robert Mitchum movie. He played a real maniac; thanks for the post.
I was channel surfing many years ago and came across this movie, maybe a quarter into the movie. I watched the remaining of it because I noticed Mitchum was in it. I was shocked I had never seen this before, had never even heard of it. What a great movie. MItchum's performance was nothing like I had ever seen him do before. Just mesmerizing.
The year was 1981. I was a new bride, and my husband was a poor college student. One day while he was in class, I turned on our small 19" black and white TV, more for company than anything else. On one channel I saw a scene from a movie i didn't recognize, a beautiful scene in which two children on a boat were gliding downriver while various small animals watched them from the near bank. Mesmerized, I continued to watch--and was soon scared spitless! It was many years before I had the chance to watch the entire movie, but I never forgot it.
You say just right, "mesmerized".
This movie is so different from every other film that came out in the 1950's. So unforgettable and haunting.
This is one of my favorite movies. It's so haunting and this might be the best photography that's been in a black and white movie
This is a good movie something to put on your mind of real life & what some children go thru. My favorite part is when the little boy say Don't he ever sleep?
He's such a good brother to his little sister. Sweet. The elegant beauty of the body underwater is like a painting. I love Lillian Gish.
The light on the water is incredible. What a wonderful nine minutes of film.
My favourite movie ever - and this section of the film is just incredible!
I remember I was about 10 years old the first time I saw this movie. It still sends chills up my spine at 1:13 when Harry Powell makes that noise. It seems to start out as a whine but then evolves into an inhuman sounding roar that echoes across the river. Any linger doubts that Powell was a madman could be erased in that scene.
Yeah, shame Laughton didn't direct again. He showed visionary talent in this film. Then again I read in a film book once that Laughton stands alone as a film director, because for masterpieces he's batting 1.000.
Perhaps there was consolation in knowing he was, and for me still is, regarded as one of the half-dozen or so greatest actors in screen history.
It's a hard world for little things.
The 1st and best music video.
this scene and this music always makes me cry...I think, like other have said in another vid, this secene is for all the children. One of my favourites. I love this film so much...and it music
This is a great Southern Gothic film.
Except it doesn't take place in the south
Michael Shell It is suppose to take place in West Virginia. The movie is listed in Sothern Gothic films.
...it owes a great debt to Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Two innocents fleeing torture...
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This movie despite the cheesy ending was ahead of its time and perhaps that's why critics of the time failed to appreciate this movie (now highly revered among modern fans and critics).Charles Laughton directed this terrific atmospheric movie and I just wish he's had the confidence to do more. Filmed in Black & White with the shading adding to the atmosphere of dread. A superb movie with Mitchum possibly at his best. This is one you ought to keep among your collection. The first time I ever saw the words "Love" and "Hate" tattooed on anyon'es hands.
One of my favorie movie scenes, ever!
That scream sends chills down my spine
Watched this a few years ago, my god, it is astonishing. This scene stayed with me for decades.
The night sky... pretty fly... the wildlife along the river.... cinematic masterpiece.
if anyone is interested, the beginning of this scene (just as they slip through his fingers) coincides with the golden mean (fibonnaci ratio) of the film's runtime (62% of the way through)
I was 15 something the fist time I saw the movie alone, broadcasted on a french chanel no dubbed. This scene on the boat has been carved in my memory, because considering I had never seen before the picture, the moment they'd embarked on the boat and right before the music starts I knew the little girl will sing, the tune will be eerie, I mean its like if I were the director I would have done like this. And the scene acted like I wish. Great movie unforgettable moments.
In terms of visceral frightfulness and intensity, this is one of the performances that marks Mitchum's range as a male lead actor and what puts him in the same category as true greats like James Cagney (e.g. 'White Heat,' 'The Public Enemy') and Gene Hackman (e.g. 'Unforgiven', where he genuinely frightened Morgan Freeman). That scream he makes is like the sound of a devil.
One of the most beautiful scenes ever filmed - incredibly cathartic after what has gone before. What a great (and still sadly undervalued) movie this is!
One of the best movie ever made.....and probably the best movie ever made actually !!
The scene after they start floating is the like the perfect fusion of peace and tension. I feel like Spielberg drew a lot of influence from this movie and others like it. The juxtaposition with danger + natural beauty feels just like him.
Great Movie I was 5yrs. Old and remembered it . Thanks for sharing
the minute she starts to sing i start to cry everytime i see this scence i get emotional
The singing silhouette on the horizon makes me gasp every time. A brilliant film, a truly unique treasure.
This part always makes me cry.
One of the best scenes ever seen and one of the better songs ever listened, IMO.
Thank You so much for posting this, one of the most beautiful and enchanting scenes in any film ever.
This is probably the most beautifully done scene ever.
Listen to that scream. That's not a human scream.
Rumor has it that that scream gave John Carpenter and Bill Lancaster the inspiration for the Bennings-thing scream in "The Thing."
It's a mountain lion!
Robert Mitchum was great in this film. Evil personified.
Me and my mum watched this together, when he was chasing them we were both screaming hysterically. I love this lullaby too, I can't believe its here.
Scariest line... "lookin like she had an extra mouth." Such a good movie... saw a portion of this movie late at night last year... and asked myself "what the heck am I watching" s.c.a.r.y! Never even knew the name... imagine... starting to watch a movie today, then recognizing Mitchum, the kids and the old couple. Got so excited... settled in and was RIVETED!!!! "Children! Chillldren!" Cheers to Charles Laughton (sp?)!!
Unashamed melodrama ....... but utterly brilliant.
One of the greatest sequences in film history, poetic.
Esta escena del gran Charles Laughton en "The Night of the hunter", es sin duda una poesía visual, bellísimos encuadres, la inocencia acechada por las criaturas de la noche, que bella película!
The way Robert Mitchum screams in rage sent chills down my spine the first time I saw this.
I love this too.And Mitchums "leaning" duet with Lillian Gish.
The way the girl sings is haunting, but beautiful. It's quit remarkable for someone that young. Especially the music!
Classic example of creative film mastery in this one of a kind work of art. Mix of horrific human suffering, bone chilling insanity, and simple poetry and beauty of existence. Many scenes conjure a magical and translucent artificial reality; such as our imagination or subconscious would fathom. The film strikes a chord with our demons and reminds us of the fragile duality and balance between personal morality and brutal insanity in us all.
This film has been important to me for almost 35 years. This sequence has been, as for many others, a fundamental reason for this.
I was just watching the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream with James Cagney (amongst others), also important to me for even longer, and I picked up at the start of the first fairy sequence that they use different animals in the introduction to that dream-like realm, including a frog, an owl, deer and other animals. It strongly reminded me of their use here. I wonder if Laughton was familiar with that film and was inspired, if not consciously, by that sequence.
My only comment on this post itself, is that I wish it had continued up until dawn breaks after the boat arrives at Rachel Cooper's farm. There's still no perfect post of this sequence on RUclips (IMHO) - although this is close.
Certainly one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Has a way of conjuring that haunted feeling of the past that you cant put your finger on.
the symbolism of black is great and the theme of the hunter, beautiful.
Una película de extraordinaria maestría que se adelantó a su época.
Una genialidad de trama, suspenso, ¡una tremenda película!
The best video on youtube compared to the others i saw i like this one the best
chef d'oeuvre !
One of Mitchum`s finest performances.
a magical scene - not a perfect film, but one that is underrated and overlooked criminally, nonetheless. a beautiful directorial debut - it's too bad none came after.
This film is far from underrated it’s widely considered to be one of the 100 best films ever
First heard it as a radio play way back in '55 or '56 on the old Monitor Radio program . Terrified the livin' bejesus out of me.I was 11 years old and alone . It was summer time and can still remember every damn sound in that old house to this day . One of my favourite movies. And in my opinion , one of the 10 best movies ever made.
Such a haunting and beautiful scene!
Haven’t watched this clip in about a year, but I knew Robert Mitchum let out a horrifying holler. Just now, as I watched, and he did that sound-like an animal-my eyes involuntary bulged and I gasped!! It gets me every time. SO terrifying!!!
I saw this entire movie last night, and his scream 1:16 reminds me a little of Gollum. Oh, and I simply ADORE the design of the barn, so simplistic and child-like. Also it reminds one of silent film.
What a movie!!!!!!!!!👍👍👍👌👌👌
There's a farm near where I live with a barn and rail fence very similar to the ones in this scene. When I drive by at dusk and see their silhouette against the sky I always think of this film.
the most beautiful black & white film ever made.
Arguably the greatest work by Mitchum ever preserved on film. Terrifying!
The most hauntingly poignant few minutes in all cinema. Such a tragedy that it was not recognized as such until so much later!
These scenes are really well done !
it really is! this is one of my very favorite sequences from one of my favorite movies
I saw this movie as a little kid. Robert M. was very handsome. I was always afraid of him because of this movie.
A awesome harrowing movie. On most everyone's top 250 movies. One of many Mitchum's finest. I have it taped on DVR.
Worst part is, stuff like this still happens, though not always to the same extreme. Religious leaders who lie and manipulate to line their pockets, not giving a damn about helping the masses
I don't think he was supposed to be an actual religious leader -just posing as one.
It happens on a much bigger scale. The Catholic sexual abuse scandal, for example
The Powell character is largely based on the real-life serial killer Harry Powers. But Powers was just a man who preyed upon lonely widows, he didn't pose as a religious authority in real life. Yes, what is portrayed in this movie did actually largely happen (unfoturnately the children in Powers' web didn't escape a terrible fate,) but religion didn't really have much to do with it.
Sååå bra. En favorit.
that scream still spooks me
One of my fav movies ever!
I saw the second half of this movie AMC and It was so good this part with the children is beautifully shot. Cant wait to rent it and watch the whole movie.
This movie is on right now on tcm,,I love this scene when the little girl sings...haunting...
My grandmother loved Robert Mitchum until she saw this movie. Then wouldn’t watch him in anything. The guy could play a real good villain
So glad this is uploaded! Just finished watching and really hoped this scene would be up, absolutely bone chilling moment that had to be relived. Thanks for the upload, and I hope this being on youtube prompts some people to take a look at this film. Brilliant.
Brilliant movie on so many different levels.
@hammypoos A great example of why you should never listen to critics. A great actor, and could have been a great director too, still at least we have this film, a classic in the true meaning of the word!
I absolutely love this movie!
Immense gratitude for sharing it !! ✩
amazingly shot
I have been waiting for this post for ages its so magical thanks.
Awesome thanks for sharing
One of the best films ever made.
Makes me cry every time.