The Night of the Hunter
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A psychopathic serial killer posing as a traveling preacher with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles marries and murders an executed cellmate's naive widow, relentlessly hunting her two terrified young children down the Ohio River for $10,000 in stolen bank loot. Charles Laughton's solitary directorial masterpiece of German expressionist fairy-tale Americana.
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