Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Downtown, Los Angeles
In addition to being known as one of the finest actors of his generation, Charles Laughton also delivered one of American cinema's most indelible directorial one-offs with his and James Agee's adaptation of Davis Grubb's *The Night of the Hunter*. Laughton's picture stars Robert Mitchum as Rev. Harry Powell, a widow-making flimflam man who hides his serial killing ways behind his priest garments – that's before getting to his "love" and "hate" knuckle tattoos. On the hunt for a missing batch of stolen cash, Powell sets his sights on Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) as his next target, while her two children John and Pearl fight to protect a secret. A hallmark of visual expressionism and storytelling that has influenced Robert Altman, Joel & Ethan Coen, Spike Lee, and countless others, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER will keep you leaning into its everlasting arms.