Movie Review: Night of the Hunter

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have come across this entry.  Today (9/13) I am checking out the flick Night of the Hunter from 1955.  It stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish.  "A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery."  I am not sure why this is on my list to watch but it is so I'm watching.  IMDB gives it an 8/10 so lets see what happens.

• Good grief floating heads of kids are even more creepy than kids usually are
• Did that camera just shake?  Yeah, the camera work is weird
• Wait..the lord tells you who to rob?
• Nice finger tats bro
• Yeah they'll never be able to follow you if you drive through the fence, it'll look like you hid
• People would be screaming if they pointed a gun at persons head like that
• Peter Graves is so young!
• They are singing a song about a guy hanging!?!  WHAT THE FUCK?
• Man preachers wear weird creepy hats, it is how you know they're evil I guess.  It is a black hat and that means bad guy in old movies
• Yeah, this preacher man is a con man like most of them
• He says boy a lot
• I don't think anyone has EVER wanted a smidgen of your fudge sister!
• Where are the guys?  Seems all women
• Yeah, you eat fudge if you don't like it boy!
• Here comes creepy preacher man, nope just creepy mom and fudge lady dancing...I think I'd rather have creepy preacher man...and there he is!
• In a week they're getting married?
• She finds a switch blade in the preachers pocket and that doesn't seem weird?
• What cussing?  When did he cuss?  
• Yeah, how dare you ask for face point lady
• Mulish as a sheep?  That...does that make sense?
• Nothing can break horsehair....that is some really clear water!
• You know, the one stone
• Ha ha, the old timey run!  I go after my dogs like that to mess with them
• Was that a gun?  Nope just a door coming down
• Slow swamp walking?
• I've never seen someone have more trouble putting someone in a boat
• WTF?  That is suppose to be the kid singing?
• Nice fake spiderweb
• Nice fake frog sound
• Always Gypsies
• Ah this is where the movie drags
• So he is going away from home so you go back home kids....or continue the same way I guess...
• Is this the same movie?

What the hell was that ending?  The first 2/3 was fine for what it was, actually kind of enjoyable...then suddenly it was weird orphanage but not weirdness.  Nope, I didn't like that ending at all.  I felt like it just lost its story there near the end.  That it didn't know where to go with the story once the kids got on the river.  I can understand that, it isn't always easy to write that third act.  You see it a lot in films but this just lost it.

I guess I will give it a 6/10.  Would have been higher but I hated that ending, hated it.  Everything was fine enough for what it was but that ending...good grief it last me in the last 20 minutes or so!