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| Charles
Laughton |
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| Director
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| 1899 - 1962 |
| Born July 1,
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England |
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Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres: Thriller,
Psychological Thriller, Crime Thriller |
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Collaborators: Robert Mitchum (Leading Player),
James Agee (Screenwriter), Stanley Cortez (Cinematographer) |
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Highly Recommended: The
Night of the Hunter (1955) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ The
Official Charles Laughton Website ] [ Derek
Malcolm's Century of Films: The Night of the Hunter ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Reel
Classics ] [
BritMovie
Biography ] [
Screen Online Biography ] |
| Books: [
Charles
Laughton: An Intimate Biography ] [ Charles
Laughton: A Difficult Actor ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: The
Night of the Hunter (1955) |
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250 Quintessential Noir Films: The
Night of the Hunter (1955) |
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"Laughton
was a brilliant performer with an astonishing range...In 1955
Laughton directed The Night of the Hunter, a visually
striking and dramatically gripping production that showed much
promise for a new career as a filmmaker. But he never made
another." - (The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) |
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"In 1955, he
directed possibly the finest debut film ever achieved within the
Hollywood system, the James Agee-scripted Night of the Hunter.
Alas, although critically well-received and widely, if
belatedly, viewed as the masterpiece it is, it was commercially
unsuccessful and proved to be Laughton's only film as a director." -
Mario Reading (The Movie Companion, 2006) |
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"He
also directed one memorable, if uneven film, Night of the
Hunter (1955), which suggested that he could possibly have
become a major screen director. Although primarily an actor of
striking personality and with a theatrical love for the bravura
effect, he was also capable of great delicacy and feeling." -
Roger Manvell (The International Encyclopedia of Film, 1972) |
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