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

Preacher Harry Powell

Willa Harper

Rachel Cooper

John Harper

Pearl Harper

Uncle Birdie Steptoe

Icey Spoon

Walt Spoon

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 ...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$795,000.00
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