Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- 12
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
- prison
- robbery
- based on novel or book
- psychopath
- widow
- boat
- fanatic
- count
- money
- film noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert Mitchum
Preacher Harry Powell
Shelley Winters
Willa Harper
Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper
Billy Chapin
John Harper
- Sally Jane Bruce — Pearl Harper
- James Gleason — Uncle Birdie Steptoe
- Evelyn Varden — Icey Spoon
- Don Beddoe — Walt Spoon
- Peter Graves — Ben Harper
- James Griffith — District Attorney
- Gloria Castillo — Ruby
- Gloria Pall — Burlesque Dancer
- Paul Bryar — Bart (uncredited)
- Cheryl Callaway — Mary
- Alexander Campbell — Judge
- Directed
- Charles Laughton
- Written
- Charles Laughton, James Agee
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 1,854 ratings
- Studio
- Paul Gregory Productions, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
