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The Night of the Hunter (1955): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 crime, drama, thriller film directed by Charles Laughton. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 97 on Metacritic, 7.9 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 97, a gap of 18 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 92 films from 1955 in our catalog and number 67 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, James Gleason.

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