peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2021 02 15 TheNightOfTheHunter

The Night of the Hunter

Mon, Feb 15, 2021./noise/movies | Link

Some nights there's nothing for it but to revisit this Robert Mitchum classic. Roger Ebert deemed it not only a "great movie" in 1996, but "one of the greatest of all American films". Who can argue with that. Bosley Crowther liked it at the time apart from the ending.