Events › Film Screening: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Please join us for a screening of The Night of the Hunter (1955). This classic southern gothic thriller is the only film that actor Charles Laughton ever directed.

In the 1930s rural South, a psychotic bogus preacher (Robert Mitchum) plots to kill a family of three for money that was hidden on a farm by the two children's late father.

©MGM Pictures | 93 minutes | Rated PG

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Accessibility
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing will be available for this screening.