What is The Night of the Hunter / Cape Fear about?

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, 1955, Sony Repertory, 93 min. Dir. Charles Laughton. Robert Mitchum is astonishing as a sociopathic wandering preacher who uses his fire-and-brimstone fundamentalism to mask his schemes to bilk money from gullible yokels or, when that doesn’t work, to blithely rob and murder them. CAPE FEAR, 1962, Universal, 106 min. Dir. J. Lee Thompson. Gregory Peck is an ordinary family man terrorized by psychotic ex-con Robert Mitchum in this adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s THE EXECUTIONERS. A classic Bernard Herrmann score drives this relentless thriller, a finely tuned suspense piece that was remade by Martin Scorsese in 1991.

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What is The Night of the Hunter / Cape Fear about?: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, 1955, Sony Repertory, 93 min. Dir. Charles Laughton. Robert Mitchum is astonishing as a sociopathic wandering preacher who uses his fire-and-brimstone fundamentalism to mask his schemes to bilk money from gullible yokels or, when that doesn’t work, to blithely rob and murder them.
CAPE FEAR, 1962, Universal, 106 min. Dir. J. Lee Thompson. Gregory Peck is an ordinary family man terrorized by psychotic ex-con Robert Mitchum in this adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s THE EXECUTIONERS. A classic Bernard Herrmann score drives this relentless thriller, a finely tuned suspense piece that was remade by Martin Scorsese in 1991.