'The Night of the Hunter' in 1955 was the only film to be directed by which actor?
"The Night of the Hunter (film) The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller directed by Charles Laughton, and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Davis Grubb. The plot focuses on a corrupt minister-turned-serial killer who attempts to charm an unsuspecting widow and steal $10,000 hidden by her executed husband. The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia."
"and Golden Globe nominations for his role in ""Witness for the Prosecution"" (1957). He played a British admiral in ""Under Ten Flags"" (1960) and worked with Laurence Olivier in ""Spartacus"" (1960). His final film was ""Advise & Consent"" (1962), for which he received favourable comments for his performance as a Southern US Senator (for which accent he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John C. Stennis). In 1955, Laughton directed ""The Night of the Hunter"", starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish, and produced by his friend Paul Gregory. The film has been cited among critics as one of the"
"obtain Humphrey Bogart as a replacement, took over the role himself. Following a series of conventional Westerns and films noir as well as the Marilyn Monroe vehicle ""River of No Return"" (1954), Mitchum appeared in Charles Laughton's only film as director: ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955). Based on a novel by Davis Grubb, the thriller starred Mitchum as a monstrous criminal posing as a preacher to find money hidden by his cellmate in the cellmate's home. His performance as Reverend Harry Powell is considered by many to be one of the best of his career. Stanley Kramer's melodrama ""Not"
"Nothing but the Night Nothing But the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Three wealthy trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, their deaths resembling suicides. But after a mysterious bus accident involving the final three trustees and 30 orphan children, police officer Colonel Bingham (Christopher Lee) starts investigating and notices discrepancies that make him question whether it was an accident. One of the orphans is treated by a psychiatrist, and when that doctor ends up murdered, it becomes obvious that something sinister"
"in numerous movie lists and was added to the National Film Registry in 1992. Despite its critical success, ""The Night of the Hunter"" has remained the only film ever directed by Laughton. Lyricist-librettist Stephen Cole and composer Claibe Richardson started working on a musical adaptation sometime in the late 1990s, releasing a concept album in 1998 through the Fynsworth Alley label. Cole wrote preliminary forms of the book and lyrics, which earned him the 2000 Kleban Award for Most Promising Librettist, while Richardson composed a score. After going through a workshop revision phase, the show was premiered at the Willow's"
"best of the 1950s, and has been selected by the United States National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress. At the time of its original release it was a critical and box-office failure, and Laughton never directed again. The documentary ""Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter"" by Robert Gitt (2002) features preserved rushes and outtakes with Laughton's audible off-camera direction. Laughton made his London stage debut in Gogol's ""The Government Inspector"" (1926). He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot"
"Only the Valiant Only the Valiant, also known as Fort Invincible, is a 1951 Western film produced by William Cagney (younger brother of James Cagney), directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, and Ward Bond. The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North and Harry Brown, based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Charles Marquis Warren. Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command. Following the American Civil War,"
"D.W. Griffith. When Gish asked Laughton, he replied, ""When I first went to the movies, they sat in their seats straight and leaned forward. Now they slump down, with their heads back, and eat candy and popcorn. I want them to sit up straight again."" Principal photography of ""The Night of the Hunter"" began on August 15 and ended on October 7, 1954. Mitchum originally suggested Laughton to shoot the film in authentic Appalachian locations but the director couldn't afford the budget to do on-location shooting. Besides, he wanted to create the film's unique look on Hollywood sound stages and"
"Billy Chapin William McClellan ""Billy"" Chapin (December 28, 1943 – December 2, 2016) was an American child actor, known for a considerable number of screen and TV performances from 1943 to 1959 and best remembered for both his roles as the ""diaper manager"" Christie Cooper in the 1953 family feature ""The Kid from Left Field"" and little John Harper in Charles Laughton's 1955 film noir movie ""The Night of the Hunter"". Chapin was the brother of former child actors Lauren Chapin, known as Kathy ""Kitten"" Anderson from the TV series ""Father Knows Best"" and of Michael Chapin, another child performer"
"other films of the era, among them a number of well-known ones, qualify as film noirs or not. For instance, ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955), starring Robert Mitchum in an acclaimed performance, is treated as a film noir by some critics, but not by others. Some critics include ""Suspicion"" (1941), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in their catalogues of noir; others ignore it. Concerning films made either before or after the classic period, or outside of the United States at any time, consensus is even rarer. To support their categorization of certain films as noirs and their rejection of others,"
"continued to appear in standard television series such as ""Waterfront"", ""The Millionaire"", and ""My Friend Flicka"", and various TV theaters, anthologies and dramas. When Charles Laughton personally cast Billy Chapin for the role of young John Harper in his 1955 film classic ""The Night of the Hunter"", the boy was already considered an ""acting technician"" among the child performers of his time. After a private meeting with Billy in his Hollywood home, Laughton told Davis Grubb, the author of the original story: """"What I want is a flexible child, and the boy is exactly that."""" Later, Laughton publicly offered praise"
"Sally Jane Bruce Sally Jane Bruce (born December 2, 1948, Los Angeles, California) is an American former child performer, best known for playing little Pearl Harper in Charles Laughton's 1955 film noir ""The Night of the Hunter"". Sally Jane Bruce was born on December 2, 1948, in Los Angeles; the daughter of country singer Jewell Edwards, who worked with Spade Cooley and his Orchestra. Before Charles Laughton would cast five-year-old Sally Jane for the role of little Pearl Harper in his thriller classic ""The Night of the Hunter"", she was already considered a veteran of TV, radio, and such films"
"John Hart (actor) John Lewis Hart (December 13, 1917 – September 20, 2009), also credited as John Hilton was an American film and television actor. In his early career, Hart appeared mostly in Westerns. Although Hart played mostly minor roles in some fairly well known films, he was probably best known for having replaced Clayton Moore in 1952 in the television series, ""The Lone Ranger"" for one season from 1952 until 1953. Hart began his screen career in 1937 with a bit part in ""Daughter of Shanghai"". He continued in a variety of B pictures such as ""Prison Farm"" and"
"films such as, ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""Dial M For Murder"" (1954) with Ray Milland, ""Rear Window"" (1954) and ""Vertigo"" (1958). Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955)—Charles Laughton's only film as director—and Orson Welles's crime thriller ""Touch of Evil"" (1958). Director Michael Powell's ""Peeping Tom"" (1960) featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcock's classic films of the 1950s, he produced ""Psycho"" (1960) about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner and taxidermist. J. Lee Thompson's ""Cape Fear"" (1962), with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time"
"one of the credited screenwriters on two of the most respected films of the 1950s: ""The African Queen"" (1951) and ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955). His contribution to ""Hunter"" is shrouded in controversy. Some critics have claimed the published script was written by the film's director Charles Laughton. Reports that Agee's screenplay for ""Hunter"" was incoherent have been proved false by the 2004 discovery of his first draft, which although 293 pages in length, is scene for scene the film which Laughton directed. While not yet published, the first draft has been read by scholars, most notably Professor Jeffrey"
"A recurring musical device involves the preacher making his presence known by singing the traditional hymn ""Leaning on the Everlasting Arms"". Mitchum also recorded the soundtrack version of the hymn. ""The Night of the Hunter"" premiered on July 26, 1955 in Des Moines, Iowa. To promote the film, the ""Los Angeles Herald-Express"" serialized the film's script throughout April 1955. The film also received an extensive promotional campaign from United Artists. It later had its premiere in Los Angeles on August 26, 1955, and in New York on September 29, 1955. ""The Night of the Hunter"" was not a success with"
"Robert Mitchum Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several classic ""films noir"", and is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known films include ""Out of the Past"" (1947), ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955), and ""Cape Fear"" (1962). Mitchum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for ""The Story of G.I. Joe"" (1945). Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film"
"The Kentuckian The Kentuckian is a 1955 Technicolor and CinemaScope adventure film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also starred. This was one of only two films Lancaster directed (the other was ""The Midnight Man""), and the only one for which he has sole credit. It also marked the feature film debut of Walter Matthau. The picture is an adaptation of the novel ""The Gabriel Horn"" by Felix Holt. The picture was shot on location in Kentucky in the Cumberland Falls area, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial"
"Lone Star (1952 film) Lone Star is a 1952 Western film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, and Lionel Barrymore (in his final role) as President Andrew Jackson. The film also marks the first (uncredited) screen appearance by then-thirteen-year-old George Hamilton, playing beside Barrymore in the role of Jackson's servant. The movie is considered both a Western and a romance, set in Texas shortly before statehood. Devereaux Burke gets a personal request from former President Andrew Jackson to facilitate the annexation of Texas into the United States. Opposition to annexation is gaining favor because it is mistakenly"
"The Night Holds Terror The Night Holds Terror is a 1955 American crime film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone that stars Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes and Jack Kelly. It was originally shown on Z Channel, uncut and commercial-free. Family man Gene Courtier makes the mistake of picking up a hitch-hiker, Victor Gosset, a wanted criminal. Gosset and his accomplices, Robert Batsford and Luther Logan, take Courtier and his family captive in their home at gunpoint. They demand that Courtier sell the car in the morning and hand over the money. With police closing in, the gang refuses to"
"Police Captain who accompanies James Stewart to the coroner's inquest. The other Hitchcock films were ""Notorious"" (1946) and ""The Wrong Man"" (1956). He also appeared in a 1955 episode of ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". Byrar was typecast as a policeman in numerous other films, including ""Rebel Without a Cause"" (1955) and some Bowery Boys films. Bryar also played bartenders, district Attorneys, sheriffs, photographers and guards. He appeared in Charles Laughton's film classic ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955) as a hangman and family father who feels depressed about his work. The character actor also played a card player in the opening"
"The Hunter (1980 film) The Hunter is a 1980 American thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik. The film was Steve McQueen's final role before his death in November of that year. The cast also features Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, and Richard Venture. This was the last theatrical film made by director Buzz Kulik. Ralph ""Papa"" Thorson (Steve McQueen) is a modern-day bounty hunter who hunts down and captures criminals who have skipped on their bail to bring them back for a 20% of the reward to his bail bondsman employer. It is revealed in the opening"
"Reverend Harry Powell Reverend Harry Powell is a fictional character in Davis Grubb's 1953 novel ""The Night of the Hunter"". He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation, and by Richard Chamberlain in the 1991 made for TV remake. He was voted 29th on the American Film Institute's top 50 villains of all time list. Powell is a self declared itinerant preacher, who is also a con artist, and serial killer. He has the words ""LOVE"" tattooed on the knuckles of one hand and ""HATE"" tattooed on the other, a fact that he explains to his"
"Though now considered a classic, ""The Night of the Hunter"" was a critical and commercial failure when released, ""because of its lack of the proper trappings."" The film was an inductee in the 1992 National Film Registry list. It is not known what was the actual reason that Chapin's final big screen appearance came just a year after ""The Night of the Hunter"", as young Jody Burrows in the 1956 B-Western ""Tension at Table Rock"", starring Richard Egan, but from then on his film career declined until he was acting solely on television, where his career eventually ended late in"
"is going on, and not just coincidental deaths. The dead psychiatrist's supervisor, Sir Mark Ashley (Peter Cushing), agrees to help the police with the hopes of finding the truth behind the mysterious happenings. Nothing but the Night Nothing But the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Three wealthy trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, their deaths resembling suicides. But after a mysterious bus accident involving the final three trustees and 30 orphan children, police officer Colonel Bingham (Christopher Lee) starts investigating and"
"Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his work on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of ""The Avengers"" and ""The Lotus Eaters"", as well as for his roles in films such as ""The Hill"" (1965), ""Repulsion"" (1965), ""Get Carter"" (1971), and ""Theatre of Blood"" (1973). Hendry was born in Ipswich, Suffolk on 13 January 1931. His father, James Hendry, was born in 1901 in Glasgow. James Hendry earned a degree in"
"Jeffrey Hunter Jeffrey Hunter (born Henry Herman ""Hank"" McKinnies Jr.; November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as ""The Searchers"" and ""King of Kings"". On television, Hunter was known, following his death, for his 1965 role as Capt. Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of ""Star Trek"" and the later use of that footage in """". Hunter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Edith Lois (Burgess) and Henry Herman McKinnies. After 1930, he was reared in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he"
"of the Hunter"". Terry and Dennis Sanders were hired as writers. Stanley Cortez, who had photographed ""The Night of the Hunter"", was intended to be the cinematographer. Press releases of the time said that Robert Mitchum was to star and Walter Schumann would compose the score. The box office failure of ""The Night of the Hunter"" led to the film being taken over by Raoul Walsh who brought in an uncredited writer to rewrite the Sanders' screenplay whilst Cortez was replaced by Joseph LaShelle. The film was made on location in Panama with 250 American soldiers as extras. Hawaiian-born soldiers"
"Stanley Cortez Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. (November 4, 1908 – December 23, 1997) was an American cinematographer. He worked on over seventy films, including Orson Welles' ""The Magnificent Ambersons"" (1942), Charles Laughton's ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955), Nunnally Johnson's ""The Three Faces of Eve"" (1957), and Samuel Fuller's ""Shock Corridor"" (1963) and ""The Naked Kiss"" (1964). Cortez was born under the surname ""Krantz"" in New York City and attended New York University. He adopted his professional name, Cortez, to capitalize on the fame of his older brother, Jacob Krantz, who had been transformed into the film matinee idol Ricardo Cortez."
"Captain Lockhart, confirming that he is an officer in the U.S. Cavalry. Producer Aaron Rosenberg says that the reason Stewart and Mann never worked together again after ""The Man From Laramie"" was a disagreement over the quality of ""Night Passage"", which according to Mann (who worked pre-production) was ""trash"". Mann quit the movie, feeling that Stewart was only making the film so he could play his accordion, something that enraged Stewart so much that the two didn't speak again. The Man from Laramie The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James"
"Ross Hunter Ross Hunter (May 6, 1926 March 10, 1996) was an American film and television producer and actor. Hunter is best known for producing light comedies such as ""Pillow Talk"" (1959), and the glamorous melodramas ""Magnificent Obsession"" (1954), ""Imitation of Life"" (1959), and ""Back Street"" (1961). Over the course of his career, Hunter produced films of various genres but found his greatest success with light-hearted comedies, musicals and melodramatic ""tear jerkers"" that were high on romance and glamour. Hunter was born Martin Terry Fuss in Cleveland, Ohio on May 6, 1926. He was of Austrian-Jewish and German Jewish descent."
"The Conqueror (1956 film) The Conqueror is a 1956 American CinemaScope epic film directed by Dick Powell and written by Oscar Millard. The film stars John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan and co-stars Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Pedro Armendáriz. Produced by entrepreneur Howard Hughes, the film was principally shot near St. George, Utah. Despite the stature of the cast and a respectable box office performance, the film was a critical flop; it is often ranked as one of the worst films of the 1950s and one of the worst ever. Wayne, who was at the height of"
"Alone in the Dark (2005 film) Alone in the Dark is a 2005 Canadian-German-American action horror film loosely based on the of Infogrames' video game series of the same name. Directed by Uwe Boll, the film stars Christian Slater as supernatural detective Edward Carnby (the main character in the games), and also features a cast of Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner, Matthew Walker, Will Sanderson, Mike Dopud, Mark Acheson, Darren Shahlavi, Karin Konoval and Ed Anders. A sequel was released in 2008. Edward Carnby (Slater) is a detective who specializes in the occult and other paranormal subjects. He"