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It’s a hard world for little things.

Overview

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

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    Robert Mitchum

    Preacher Harry Powell

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    Shelley Winters

    Willa Harper

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    Lillian Gish

    Rachel Cooper

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    Billy Chapin

    John Harper

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    Sally Jane Bruce

    Pearl Harper

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    James Gleason

    Uncle Birdie Steptoe

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    Evelyn Varden

    Icey Spoon

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    Don Beddoe

    Walt Spoon

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    Peter Graves

    Ben Harper

Continuing with my quest to establish where or not Charles Laughton ever made a bad movie, I recently came, again, to this - one of my all time favourite films. I remember cowering behind the sofa as a child when this film came on television late in the evening. It all centres around a robber who has hidden $10,000 somewhere. His jailbird pal "Powell" (Robert Mitchum) is out, masquerading as a puritanical preacher, and determined to befriend the man's family and to scoop the loot. Shelley Winters is the naive, now widow, "Willa" who falls hook, line and sinker for the wiles and charms of this ...