The Night of the Hunter

Author: Callow, Simon

Film theory & criticism

Published on 1 December 2000 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (BFI Publishing) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the BFI Film Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 80 pages, illustrated
190 x 135 x 7 | 144g

This is an examination of 'The Night of the Hunter', Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon.