Filming ground to a halt one day because Mitchum had gotten so high on marijuana that he could barely see straight. Laughton gave him and earful,and Mitchum proceeded to walk right over to Laughton's care and pee on the front seat. According to Laughton himself "he zipped up and gave me a look like it was just the dearest thing he'd ever done."
Did you realize the coincidences between this scene´s character and the other at "cape of fear" ??? Night and river-killer and innocents... and the same Great actor (of course)...
i just heard the soundtrack with the story being told by laughton himself and its amazing! someone provided it at megaupload or something. if you love the film, check it out, can recommend it!
Gawd...why can´t actors have this depth anymore ??...Don´t tell me....CGI, big post production vans and a even bigger ego ??...Rest in peace,anti hero ...You will not be forgotten.
yes i remember watching this in black and white when I was a kid and being so terrified after that of people in black suits and who looked like James Mitchum. Grief, anyway, it was great to find it on here. I came to look for the movie and just remembered mitchum acted in it and here it is. Thank you to whoever put it on here, it was a great movie and worth watching. They don't make movies like this anymore, it is all just gore, blood, and lots of crazy folks with guns, knives, sighs
No matter how often I watch, I am always blown away by how scary the 9:10 scene is. "The Night of the Hunter" taught me so much about movies. I am 19 now and I finally understand why my mom calls today's films "poor." Oh, how much I would love to go back in time and thank Laughton for this masterpiece! (Guess I would not come back to 2011, though ... :)
Sad that Charles Laughton never directed another film because it got slated when it first came out. The imagery in this film is genius, wish he could have lived to receive the praise this is worth! One of the greatest films. Beautiful.
haha I sat at my desk and roll-away chair and watched the first one and a half minutes of this,and at :55 I actually started to roll away from my computer. I was several feet away before I realized what I was doing.lol
haha I sat at my desk and roll-away chair and watched the first one and a half minutes of this,and at 1:10 I actually started to roll away from my computer. I was several feet away before I realized what I was doing.lol
I saw this entire movie last night, and his scream 1:16 reminds me a little of Gollum. Oh, and I simply ADORE the design of the barn, so simplistic and child-like. Also it reminds one of silent film.
0:19 RUN! Get away from that mad man who's trying to kill you... Just be sure that you don't get your feet too wet while escaping. That's some sticky mud.
I'd always thought that the scene of the woman singing the lullaby (starting about 6:00 in this video) is one of the most haunting scenes in movie history... ruined by the little girl talking.
I'd always thought that the scene of the woman singing the lullaby (starting about 6:00 in this video) is one of the most haunting scenes in movie history... ruined by the little girl talking.
Yes, a truly beautiful masterpiece of a film. What a shame that it got panned by the critics when it was released. Charles Laughton never got to direct another film. Like so many others, his genius was not recognized in his own lifetime.
I remember I was about 10 years old the first time I saw this movie. It still sends chills up my spine at 1:13 when Harry Powell makes that noise. It seems to start out as a whine but then evolves into an inhuman sounding roar that echoes across the river. Any linger doubts that Powell was a madman could be erased in that scene.
Greatest ten mins in film history. I've watched it a thousand times and it still fills me with horror, bewilderment and an intense childlike fascination. OMG get in that damn boat already!
@snoops4ever Being brought up in a generation centered around being afraid of gore and blood and such, this movie is certainly scarier because of the mental terrors. This is so much scarier to me, and I'm hardly scared of horror movies these days.
One of the most beautiful scenes ever filmed - incredibly cathartic after what has gone before. What a great (and still sadly undervalued) movie this is!
One of the most beautiful scenes ever filmed - incredibly cathartic after what has gone before. What a great (and still sadly undevalued) movie this is!
I read that Mitchum based his character for this movie on his real experiences from a period where he was a drifter, wandering through the backwood's communities of America-small, isolated towns where people really would believe any word said by a man with a bible in his hand.
Holy crap i hate the person who made this vid (not really). Okay, I'd already seen the scene where the old lady is singing witht he creeper on the rock. Now, it's very late here and i was watching this video and dosed off about 1 min through. I woke up like 7 mins later to that creepy song (it is very dark and noone else is home at my house), i freaked out, screamed and ran to turn on the lights, tripped over a wire, ran to turn on every light i could find and grabbed my baseball bat. It sucked
@n8rules Me too. I remember being 11 or so and watching it until I saw "LOVE" and "HATE" and then I was out of there. One look at those knuckles and even as a kid I understood that anyone who did that to himself was deadly threat to kids.
What a briliant device those jailhouse tattoos were! Of course that was the work of the book's author, Mackinley Kantor. But Laughton's visualization of it made everyone instantly recognize that there was something terribly broken in the preacher.
@60Cascade Hah! For 40 years I've thought it was Kantor. I was wondering why I thought Kantor was the author, and remembered I read it in a Reader's Digest Condensed Book volume. I looked it up ( the January 1954 volume!) and it turns out Kantor wrote the story which was just after NOTH in the volume. *sigh* Funny how our mind and memory work. Thanks, or I would have gone to my grave wrongly giving Kantor the credit for this minor masterpiece of "Depression Gothic".
Esta escena del gran Charles Laughton en "The Night of the hunter", es sin duda una poesía visual, bellísimos encuadres, la inocencia acechada por las criaturas de la noche, que bella película!
orson welles wanted touch of evil to be" unreal but true. theatrically styilized but cinematic truth. like any Cagney performance" laughton and co. caught that poetic essense with this dark beauty.
I can't think of another movie that uses this kind of mixing of natural settings with highly stylized, almost bare sets. Laughton intended the stark, exaggerated lighting to look like theater. It is a brilliant imagining and it evokes the terrible threat to the kids. The striking images are among the most iconic on film. This movie did poorly in release because moviegoers then wanted full, rich color. But I think color would have totally destroyed it.
@hammypoos A great example of why you should never listen to critics. A great actor, and could have been a great director too, still at least we have this film, a classic in the true meaning of the word!
oh come on, you're telling me he couldn't reach the boat? gotta love the quick edit to the boat being in deep water right after the boy pushed on the banks with the paddle.
Captivating scene that pulls you in and keeps you there. Its like a dark fairy tale in the way the children escape the villian then are lulled to sleep across the river under the starry night. The animals seem as if they are keeping watch, while Pearl sings that beautiful, yet eerie lullubye. "...one day she flew away...flew away..." That guttural scream? OMG. Then the classic line, "Does he NEVER sleep?" Truly a masterpiece in film.
What's funny is that the horseback sillohuette is actually a midget on a pony to give the illusion of the preacher being farther away becuse of limited studio space. Wonderful fim, truly terrifying :o
One thing I don't understand; if Charles Laughton disliked children so much (as I keep reading) why did he choose to direct such a child-centric story?
OMG. I can't believe this is on here. This is one of the most beautifully directed and lighted movies ever made. The scene at the end (of this clip) with mitchum singing on horseback in silhouette is sheer perfection!
Un film absolument aérien et génial. Entre le rêve et la réalité un chez-d'oeuvre qui touche à la vérité la plus profonde de l'enfance, dans ce qu'elle porte d'angoisse et d'aspiration héroïque à se surpasser.
I saw the second half of this movie AMC and It was so good this part with the children is beautifully shot. Cant wait to rent it and watch the whole movie.
There's a farm near where I live with a barn and rail fence very similar to the ones in this scene. When I drive by at dusk and see their silhouette against the sky I always think of this film.
@gandy74 I love this comment because it is a testimony to the power of good cinema-to stay with you for many years after you have watched the film; to seep into your consciousness-and influence ever so slightly, or maybe more, the way you see the world. I love this film too, those scenes are etched into my memory too; I can never forget them. From time to time I too will see a snippet of the film played out in real life-especially if it is dusk or late at night!
wowser, one of my favourite movies of all time, robert mitchum is wonderful, the river boat scene is amazing, the stars in the night sky are visually stunning, magnificent movie!
this scene and this music always makes me cry...I think, like other have said in another vid, this secene is for all the children. One of my favourites. I love this film so much...and it music
Wow, interesting. Was she in touch with Billy Chapin? Did she have any good memories of Mitchum or Shelly Winters Or Laughton? One of my favorite movies, too.
That terrible, id scream, followed by the surreal river escape. Dreamy. This film shows predator and prey in nature's rawness. Love the lynch mob at the end, lead by Dicey. I believe the Cohen brothers allude to a couple of scenes from this fillm. One of the best scenes in film.
I watched this late at night years ago. It just came on, I knew nothing of it and I was gripped. I remember being amazed that it used techniques to build terror and tension that I'd only previously seen in much more recent films e.g. the remake of Cape Fear.
Hello, I was trying to write down the lyrics of the lullaby the children hear when they stop on the land and settle in the barn for the night(starts at the 6th minute) but I still miss a couple of words. "Bird will sing in your ??" then "angel ?? will keep it safe". Thanks!
rober mitchum was the WORST FUCKIN ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!! ONE MOVIE I'LL GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR...THE ONE HE NEVER FUCKIN MADE..that was THE BEST OF ALL!!!!
I forget the name, but I was watching a movie once that totally ripped off this scene, complete with children floating downstream in a boat, and the single animal shots, one by one, including bullfrog and spider! And I had just seen this wonderful movie so I was shocked. Wish I could remember the movie. And kinglear, I wish there was a soundtrack too!
Lawton's film was a Masterpiece, unfortunately, WAY ahead of it's time in terms of concept & delivery. Way behind the times in terms of using black n whaite, old film techniques (iris in, swipes etc). Mitchum's greatest performance IMO.
Ten of the greatest moments in film in my opinion. Not to mention the rest of the film, of course! Very very few films make me cry, but this one does every time, twice. Thanks for the post.
Okay, I messed up typing that other message. I meant to write that sometimes the tastes of audiences are terrible. Or sometimes, audiences don't consider something good until decades later.
Filming ground to a halt one day because Mitchum had gotten so high on marijuana that he could barely see straight. Laughton gave him and earful,and Mitchum proceeded to walk right over to Laughton's care and pee on the front seat. According to Laughton himself "he zipped up and gave me a look like it was just the dearest thing he'd ever done."
dkupke 6 days ago
Wrote an essay on this at Uni last year, and I still adore it. <3 ~
ChibiFireAngel 1 week ago
They need a fishing equipment and cook up some
sibkiss2009 1 month ago
08:45 - 09:26
mikolajjj 2 months ago
@mikolajjj thanks
byrnecobain 2 weeks ago
The most hauntingly poignant few minutes in all cinema. Such a tragedy that it was not recognized as such until so much later!
pfalzdxii 3 months ago
"don't he ever sleep?" i'm sorry, but i had to laugh. i want to watch this movie.
searchanddiscover 3 months ago
saw this in school for visual media class, so im writing an essay. Wish me luck!
Bloodwrath9650 4 months ago
The greatest film scene of all time.
LightStijn 4 months ago
Don't he never sleep?!
mazquara 5 months ago
With the cinematography and score - that is one of the eeriest scenes in cinema history.
DanielSmukalla 6 months ago
Did you realize the coincidences between this scene´s character and the other at "cape of fear" ??? Night and river-killer and innocents... and the same Great actor (of course)...
Sonoman02 6 months ago
May be the best 10 min in film history
calahann 7 months ago 2
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I watched this movie on TCM last night. It's great!
sterlingman 7 months ago
Rober Mitchum's initial scream of frustration is probably one of the scariest screams in cinema history.
RatkosKorner 7 months ago 2
i just heard the soundtrack with the story being told by laughton himself and its amazing! someone provided it at megaupload or something. if you love the film, check it out, can recommend it!
LLit11 7 months ago
Gawd...why can´t actors have this depth anymore ??...Don´t tell me....CGI, big post production vans and a even bigger ego ??...Rest in peace,anti hero ...You will not be forgotten.
SeriousMitchYourPal 8 months ago
My favourite movie ever - and this section of the film is just incredible!
Ukka68 8 months ago
yes i remember watching this in black and white when I was a kid and being so terrified after that of people in black suits and who looked like James Mitchum. Grief, anyway, it was great to find it on here. I came to look for the movie and just remembered mitchum acted in it and here it is. Thank you to whoever put it on here, it was a great movie and worth watching. They don't make movies like this anymore, it is all just gore, blood, and lots of crazy folks with guns, knives, sighs
Chuckles123thefish 8 months ago
No matter how often I watch, I am always blown away by how scary the 9:10 scene is. "The Night of the Hunter" taught me so much about movies. I am 19 now and I finally understand why my mom calls today's films "poor." Oh, how much I would love to go back in time and thank Laughton for this masterpiece! (Guess I would not come back to 2011, though ... :)
JEMorrow1 8 months ago
a classic
NewHomeMovies 8 months ago
Sad that Charles Laughton never directed another film because it got slated when it first came out. The imagery in this film is genius, wish he could have lived to receive the praise this is worth! One of the greatest films. Beautiful.
violetnike 8 months ago 14
This is one of my favorite movies. It's so haunting and this might be the best photography that's been in a black and white movie
RdVirus777 9 months ago
leeeeeeeaning...leeeeeeaning...
1pieceisdareasoniliv 9 months ago
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As scary as he is, I can't help but be in love with his voice. <3
meltingonion 9 months ago
As scary as he is, I can't help but be in love with his voice. <3
meltingonion 9 months ago
These scenes are really well done !
TheLukky46 9 months ago
One of the greatest sequences in film history, poetic.
chimpion10 10 months ago
1:14
blablaidontcarewhour 10 months ago
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haha I sat at my desk and roll-away chair and watched the first one and a half minutes of this,and at :55 I actually started to roll away from my computer. I was several feet away before I realized what I was doing.lol
Mitchum is so damned scary in this!
4MaryAnna 10 months ago
haha I sat at my desk and roll-away chair and watched the first one and a half minutes of this,and at 1:10 I actually started to roll away from my computer. I was several feet away before I realized what I was doing.lol
Mitchum is so damned scary in this!
4MaryAnna 10 months ago 2
Powell's a predator.
027220 10 months ago
I saw this entire movie last night, and his scream 1:16 reminds me a little of Gollum. Oh, and I simply ADORE the design of the barn, so simplistic and child-like. Also it reminds one of silent film.
Raidmasterprod 11 months ago
0:19 RUN! Get away from that mad man who's trying to kill you... Just be sure that you don't get your feet too wet while escaping. That's some sticky mud.
KilldozerRocks 11 months ago
Certainly one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Has a way of conjuring that haunted feeling of the past that you cant put your finger on.
BugsWisely 11 months ago 2
fun fact: In the horseback riding scene they used a midget on a small pony to get the proportions to match:) !
Arlaminihowielover 11 months ago
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thanks, much appreciated
ribside 1 year ago
The is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I just saw it for the first time today. its darn near perfect
HelterSkelter67 1 year ago 2
@HelterSkelter67 I couldn't agree with you more
seekisforme5 11 months ago
Has there been scarier music in film than at 0:54?
uk6strings 1 year ago
Laughton seemed to be on par with Welles as a director.
JiffySpook 1 year ago
That scream itself identifies this movie.
izlude2 1 year ago
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Right up there with Peter O' Toole's scream in The Ruling Class.
Jcolinsol 11 months ago
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I'd always thought that the scene of the woman singing the lullaby (starting about 6:00 in this video) is one of the most haunting scenes in movie history... ruined by the little girl talking.
vandrdecker 1 year ago
I'd always thought that the scene of the woman singing the lullaby (starting about 6:00 in this video) is one of the most haunting scenes in movie history... ruined by the little girl talking.
vandrdecker 1 year ago
Excellent film! Director Charles Laughton's only film! Excellent film!!
MsDanjune 1 year ago 2
this is one ot the best american movies forever. great masterpice movie.
Starfighterking 1 year ago
Una película de extraordinaria maestría que se adelantó a su época.
Una genialidad de trama, suspenso, ¡una tremenda película!
Marinaely1 1 year ago
Yes, a truly beautiful masterpiece of a film. What a shame that it got panned by the critics when it was released. Charles Laughton never got to direct another film. Like so many others, his genius was not recognized in his own lifetime.
Cosmo8180 1 year ago
I love this film.
InsanelyINsane 1 year ago
a masterpiece!
everfanta 1 year ago
One of Mitchum`s finest performances.
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
"MmmmmmmmmmmmmAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"--Robert Mitchum
quicklern818 1 year ago 10
should be up there with Psycho
schnurrbart45 1 year ago
I remember I was about 10 years old the first time I saw this movie. It still sends chills up my spine at 1:13 when Harry Powell makes that noise. It seems to start out as a whine but then evolves into an inhuman sounding roar that echoes across the river. Any linger doubts that Powell was a madman could be erased in that scene.
bluecatky 1 year ago
mmmmyaaaaaahhh!!
sandmanb25 1 year ago
One of my favorie movie scenes, ever!
indymag 1 year ago
Greatest ten mins in film history. I've watched it a thousand times and it still fills me with horror, bewilderment and an intense childlike fascination. OMG get in that damn boat already!
Ukka68 1 year ago
So effin scary.
snoops4ever 1 year ago
@snoops4ever Being brought up in a generation centered around being afraid of gore and blood and such, this movie is certainly scarier because of the mental terrors. This is so much scarier to me, and I'm hardly scared of horror movies these days.
manderzluvsyou91 1 year ago
Amazing sequence.
loganINTJ 1 year ago
One of the most beautiful scenes ever filmed - incredibly cathartic after what has gone before. What a great (and still sadly undervalued) movie this is!
kareace123 1 year ago 2
@kareace123 i HAD to get this on dvd ; unique film and great to see a happy ending for Pearl and John with this Scum getting his just desserts !
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One of the most beautiful scenes ever filmed - incredibly cathartic after what has gone before. What a great (and still sadly undevalued) movie this is!
kareace123 1 year ago
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kareace123 1 year ago
I read that Mitchum based his character for this movie on his real experiences from a period where he was a drifter, wandering through the backwood's communities of America-small, isolated towns where people really would believe any word said by a man with a bible in his hand.
dkupke 1 year ago
Still looking for the river boat...
jehouse 1 year ago
Holy crap i hate the person who made this vid (not really). Okay, I'd already seen the scene where the old lady is singing witht he creeper on the rock. Now, it's very late here and i was watching this video and dosed off about 1 min through. I woke up like 7 mins later to that creepy song (it is very dark and noone else is home at my house), i freaked out, screamed and ran to turn on the lights, tripped over a wire, ran to turn on every light i could find and grabbed my baseball bat. It sucked
SuperiorSwagon1 1 year ago
@SuperiorSwagon1 You're really weird.
LightStijn 1 year ago
uh huh always wanna blame a Gypsy
stillphil 1 year ago
that scream
alanmk5 1 year ago
the sad thing is that the film was slated and he never directed again
hammypoos 1 year ago 2
This film gave me nightmares when I was a child. It is amazing. I have never understood-is it supposed to be so surreal?
n8rules 1 year ago
@n8rules Me too. I remember being 11 or so and watching it until I saw "LOVE" and "HATE" and then I was out of there. One look at those knuckles and even as a kid I understood that anyone who did that to himself was deadly threat to kids.
What a briliant device those jailhouse tattoos were! Of course that was the work of the book's author, Mackinley Kantor. But Laughton's visualization of it made everyone instantly recognize that there was something terribly broken in the preacher.
jum1801 1 year ago
@jum1801 The book's author was Davis Grubb.
60Cascade 1 year ago
@60Cascade Hah! For 40 years I've thought it was Kantor. I was wondering why I thought Kantor was the author, and remembered I read it in a Reader's Digest Condensed Book volume. I looked it up ( the January 1954 volume!) and it turns out Kantor wrote the story which was just after NOTH in the volume. *sigh* Funny how our mind and memory work. Thanks, or I would have gone to my grave wrongly giving Kantor the credit for this minor masterpiece of "Depression Gothic".
jum1801 1 year ago
song says that the children are flies, we see a spider; spiders eat flies. we see a frog; frogs eat flies.
we see an owl, who later eats a rabbit. we next see a turtle, and the boy says 'we can make soup out of them.'
animal imagery: predators and their prey on this night of the hunter.
tankerchamper 1 year ago 2
@tankerchamper interesting observation. Thank you for that insight.
60Cascade 1 year ago
One of my fav movies ever!
bluerat77 1 year ago
Esta escena del gran Charles Laughton en "The Night of the hunter", es sin duda una poesía visual, bellísimos encuadres, la inocencia acechada por las criaturas de la noche, que bella película!
ultimaesperanza04 1 year ago
This scene loos like a nightmare. :O Really scare.
JuliaMarcuz 1 year ago
orson welles wanted touch of evil to be" unreal but true. theatrically styilized but cinematic truth. like any Cagney performance" laughton and co. caught that poetic essense with this dark beauty.
moneymoreman 1 year ago 2
I can't think of another movie that uses this kind of mixing of natural settings with highly stylized, almost bare sets. Laughton intended the stark, exaggerated lighting to look like theater. It is a brilliant imagining and it evokes the terrible threat to the kids. The striking images are among the most iconic on film. This movie did poorly in release because moviegoers then wanted full, rich color. But I think color would have totally destroyed it.
Laughton's film is a work of sheer genius
jum1801 1 year ago 3
the sad thing is that the film was slated and he never directed again
hammypoos 1 year ago
@jum1801 the sad thing is that the film was slated and he never directed again
hammypoos 1 year ago
@hammypoos A great example of why you should never listen to critics. A great actor, and could have been a great director too, still at least we have this film, a classic in the true meaning of the word!
PrawnToucher 1 year ago
One of the best movie ever made.....and probably the best movie ever made actually !!
Soraya270770 1 year ago
oh come on, you're telling me he couldn't reach the boat? gotta love the quick edit to the boat being in deep water right after the boy pushed on the banks with the paddle.
zackhanscom 1 year ago
best movie ever made - just unreal!
Ukka68 1 year ago
Most oniric film ever seen. And so poetic!!
Activeny 1 year ago 2
I wish to introduce Robert Mitchum into my Vagina!
peymaania 1 year ago 3
@peymaania O_O OMG
DarkAmbellina 1 year ago
One of the best scenes ever seen and one of the better songs ever listened, IMO.
lejoe48 1 year ago
Wow! that is the best scream ever.
lighttheburnedmatch 2 years ago 3
In my opinion, one of the best scene ever seen.
FantomeJersey 2 years ago
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ninsei0112 2 years ago
I love the imagery in this film...it's like watching a child's nightmare, but it is strangely beautiful too.
EveHarrington1 2 years ago 2
@EveHarrington1
Genius!!!!
garantuan 1 year ago
@garantuan
Thanks! This really is a beautiful scene. :)
EveHarrington1 1 year ago
I can't figure out the sequence to finish the movie but it's a great movie.
Sorry Laughton got disheartned and didn't direct any more. It's a superb portrayal of a psychopath.
grainofsandfan 2 years ago
the minute she starts to sing i start to cry everytime i see this scence i get emotional
Central85 2 years ago
Captivating scene that pulls you in and keeps you there. Its like a dark fairy tale in the way the children escape the villian then are lulled to sleep across the river under the starry night. The animals seem as if they are keeping watch, while Pearl sings that beautiful, yet eerie lullubye. "...one day she flew away...flew away..." That guttural scream? OMG. Then the classic line, "Does he NEVER sleep?" Truly a masterpiece in film.
clbzone 2 years ago 2
Fantastic movie. Far ahead of it's time.
Remliv 2 years ago
What's funny is that the horseback sillohuette is actually a midget on a pony to give the illusion of the preacher being farther away becuse of limited studio space. Wonderful fim, truly terrifying :o
twinks2011 2 years ago 2
i love trivia like that!
BigLoveZone 2 years ago
The Night Of The Hunter and Out Of The Past are my two all time favorite Mitchum films,
nobody could do dark characters quite like he could.
I remember reading somewhere Kathrine Hepburn had said to his face that she didn't think he was a good actor compared with Spencer Tracy, LOL
to each their own.
cha5 2 years ago
One thing I don't understand; if Charles Laughton disliked children so much (as I keep reading) why did he choose to direct such a child-centric story?
merlin262005 2 years ago
What's truly frightening about Mitchum's preacher is that adults trust him because he says all the things they like to hear.
But the children instinctively don't trust him because they don't listen to what he says-they pick up on his vibe being all wrong.
1915fas 2 years ago 14
that scream still spooks me
alanmk5 2 years ago 3
OMG. I can't believe this is on here. This is one of the most beautifully directed and lighted movies ever made. The scene at the end (of this clip) with mitchum singing on horseback in silhouette is sheer perfection!
Bluespeyer 2 years ago 41
it really is! this is one of my very favorite sequences from one of my favorite movies
arrowchild 2 years ago
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sprayart94 2 years ago
sorry lol I didnt watch the whole clip before the comment. :P
sprayart94 2 years ago
mitchum rocks!! thanx for the upload!!
431516020205 2 years ago
Me and my mum watched this together, when he was chasing them we were both screaming hysterically. I love this lullaby too, I can't believe its here.
GhibliGirl91 2 years ago 2
a classical movie of film noir!
great!
loverplease 2 years ago 3
Watched a bit of this in English class. It was wicked XD
Want to watch the rest of it :D
HIGSOFX 2 years ago
what's the name of the song she sings?
earspin 2 years ago
Once Upon a Time There Was a Pretty Fly
Dear1Stupit1Dog 2 years ago 2
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mleemyra2 2 years ago
Un film absolument aérien et génial. Entre le rêve et la réalité un chez-d'oeuvre qui touche à la vérité la plus profonde de l'enfance, dans ce qu'elle porte d'angoisse et d'aspiration héroïque à se surpasser.
lauriolan 2 years ago
Damn, Robert Mitchum was sexy. And I love this movie. My mom watched it with me years and years ago when I was a kid. Thoroughly creeped me out.
melville80 2 years ago 2
the first time i saw this movie it really creeped me out. especially when i saw him screaming; it sent chills down my spine! whoaaaa!
starfox471 2 years ago 2
I love Pearl's lullaby...
blueblaster500 2 years ago 4
I saw the second half of this movie AMC and It was so good this part with the children is beautifully shot. Cant wait to rent it and watch the whole movie.
NicaBoy81 3 years ago
Pearl sings soooo beautifuly! the scream is creepy
LyraCC7 3 years ago 3
This is my favorite Robert Mitchum movie. He played a real maniac; thanks for the post.
nimrod4017 3 years ago 2
There's a farm near where I live with a barn and rail fence very similar to the ones in this scene. When I drive by at dusk and see their silhouette against the sky I always think of this film.
gandy74 3 years ago 17
@gandy74 I love this comment because it is a testimony to the power of good cinema-to stay with you for many years after you have watched the film; to seep into your consciousness-and influence ever so slightly, or maybe more, the way you see the world. I love this film too, those scenes are etched into my memory too; I can never forget them. From time to time I too will see a snippet of the film played out in real life-especially if it is dusk or late at night!
nemohove 1 year ago
what a creepy movie that was
foghatconcertseries 3 years ago
Children! Children!
Rapax02 3 years ago 3
wowser, one of my favourite movies of all time, robert mitchum is wonderful, the river boat scene is amazing, the stars in the night sky are visually stunning, magnificent movie!
jonnathr 3 years ago 5
this scene and this music always makes me cry...I think, like other have said in another vid, this secene is for all the children. One of my favourites. I love this film so much...and it music
lejoe48 3 years ago 3
Masterpiece .
weisszil 3 years ago 4
amazingly shot
jovossuck123 3 years ago
Wow, interesting. Was she in touch with Billy Chapin? Did she have any good memories of Mitchum or Shelly Winters Or Laughton? One of my favorite movies, too.
titostacos 3 years ago
I will never get over that scream. Gives me the chills.
micahhymer 3 years ago 4
Pearl surely has an amazing acting and singing talent! This is really an amazing movie!
SCSQ4 3 years ago
The part where Pearl sings is my favorite. Was this little girl in any other movies? She has such a clear voice.
rattypajamas 3 years ago
This is the best film ever made.
murrayallan 3 years ago 5
Agreed 1000%%. This film has a really mesmerising, beautiful quality to it. It's also one of the scariest things ever made.
LadyEmilyElizabeth 3 years ago 3
Part movie...part fairy tale!
shaman683 3 years ago 2
The most blood curdling scream ever.
tempusfugit68 3 years ago 4
The book "The Wind In The Willows" has a similar scene where Rat and Mole search for a lost baby otter on the river at night.
mc4661 3 years ago 2
This could easliy have been a Guy Madden movie. He wouldn't have to remake it or anything, just slap his name on the credits.
superjules 3 years ago
That terrible, id scream, followed by the surreal river escape. Dreamy. This film shows predator and prey in nature's rawness. Love the lynch mob at the end, lead by Dicey. I believe the Cohen brothers allude to a couple of scenes from this fillm. One of the best scenes in film.
odovicor 3 years ago 5
The river scene is one of my favourite scenes ever!
goouttothemeadow 3 years ago 6
Holy crap what a scream. Have not heard many like that...
micahhymer 3 years ago 5
My God that scream. Perfect....
robotwookie 3 years ago 2
You're definitely right about "yonder willow". If I may add, perhaps the lyrics are "angel folds(as in wings)will keep you safe".
gandy74 3 years ago
The movie helps you understand how dangerous religious fanatics are.
Bickaa8012 3 years ago 4
Good grief!
wilchbla68 3 years ago
Robert Mitchum's scream is one of the most terrifying things ever put on film.
cpm3geneseo 3 years ago 4
This scene changed my whole perspective on both cinema and storytelling. To me, it really is beautiful in every way - even the 'outdated' peril.
murrayallan 3 years ago 2
I watched this late at night years ago. It just came on, I knew nothing of it and I was gripped. I remember being amazed that it used techniques to build terror and tension that I'd only previously seen in much more recent films e.g. the remake of Cape Fear.
chrisso4050 3 years ago
Estoy deacuerdo:impactante y subyugante papel de r.mitchum. preciosa canción. una delicia para los ojos y los oídos
deffago 3 years ago
Surreal, hypnotic, beautiful. Truly one of the greatest films ever made.
hooper450 4 years ago 2
I love Bjork and her cool videos.
gameraxxx 4 years ago
So right! I wonder if she was inspired.
gatkin123 3 years ago
this scene of the little girl singing made me cry ...and it keeps doing it. I love the story!
franvilasain2 4 years ago
Hello, I was trying to write down the lyrics of the lullaby the children hear when they stop on the land and settle in the barn for the night(starts at the 6th minute) but I still miss a couple of words. "Bird will sing in your ??" then "angel ?? will keep it safe". Thanks!
MarushkaBCN 4 years ago
I think it is: "Bird will sing in your under willow" and "Angel post will keep it safe"
TMA62 4 years ago
Thanks! But I think I've got it figured out, it could be "in yonder willow" and "angel close"
MarushkaBCN 4 years ago
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rober mitchum was the WORST FUCKIN ACTOR IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!! ONE MOVIE I'LL GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR...THE ONE HE NEVER FUCKIN MADE..that was THE BEST OF ALL!!!!
chickpea0007 4 years ago
You can be the miridian vaaaasee...~
xLinaChansDEADx 4 years ago
I also suggest to the audience another black and white movie:"Shock Corridor" by Sam Fuller
atypici 4 years ago
magical and mesmerizing
cesaraeon 4 years ago
Best movie of all time??? And I think the ONLY movie Charles Laughton ever directed.
rustypearl 4 years ago
RoBERT a chanter cette chanson !! magnifique
mitiaoklana 4 years ago
I forget the name, but I was watching a movie once that totally ripped off this scene, complete with children floating downstream in a boat, and the single animal shots, one by one, including bullfrog and spider! And I had just seen this wonderful movie so I was shocked. Wish I could remember the movie. And kinglear, I wish there was a soundtrack too!
oshinataka 4 years ago
Lawton's film was a Masterpiece, unfortunately, WAY ahead of it's time in terms of concept & delivery. Way behind the times in terms of using black n whaite, old film techniques (iris in, swipes etc). Mitchum's greatest performance IMO.
dapoetmaster 4 years ago
I love this movie,I wish the rest was on here.
reddflower86 4 years ago
lindo,beatiful
amebix23 4 years ago
Ten of the greatest moments in film in my opinion. Not to mention the rest of the film, of course! Very very few films make me cry, but this one does every time, twice. Thanks for the post.
Jokesniff 4 years ago 2
i've watched this in my film history class back in 2004 while i was in high school. I'm so glad that I did. It's an epic! And a classic!
MusicBox1986 4 years ago
that girl looks just like her doll
yousmackface 4 years ago
Okay, I messed up typing that other message. I meant to write that sometimes the tastes of audiences are terrible. Or sometimes, audiences don't consider something good until decades later.
kinglear 4 years ago
This film is great.
What´s that song called that begins at 6.20?
Is that some traditional lullaby?
nikandraathelvete 4 years ago