Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!cca!ada-uts!mbate From: mbate@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Scariest Movies Message-ID: <11000008@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 12:41:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ada-uts.11000008 Posted: Thu Oct 24 12:41:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 19:12:17 EDT References: <625@h-sc1.UUCP> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:h-sc1:-62500:ada-uts:11000008:000:380 Nf-From: ada-uts!mbate Oct 24 12:41:00 1985 Night of the Hunter, made in the mid-50s, was the only film that Charles Laughton ever directed. It was GREAT. Brooding atmosphere, great camera work. Too bad Laughton never directed another film. BTW, Mitchum (in perhaps the best performance of his career) played a murdering minister, not a priest. Back in those days, Hollywood would never portray a priest that way.