Overview
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Details
- Director
- Charles Laughton
- Writer
- James Agee
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $795,000
Cast
Billy Chapin
Don Beddoe
Evelyn Varden
James Gleason
James Griffith
Lillian Gish
Peter Graves
Robert Mitchum
Sally Jane Bruce
Shelley Winters
Keywords
based on novel or book
black and white
bluebeard
boat
children on the run
count
criterion
doll
ex-con
expressionism
fanatic
film noir
gothic
hymn
money
murder
preacher
prison
psychopath
religion
robbery
secret
southern gothic
stashed cash
theft
widow
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