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1955 | B/N | 93 min

In Depression-era West Virginia, Harry Powell is a menacing religious misogynist who marries widows for their money then kills them off in the name of the Lord. Having been jailed for stealing a car, he shares a cell with father-of-two Ben Harper, soon to be hanged for murder and the theft of $10,000. Determined to keep Harper´s money, Powell woos and marries his widow, but it is Harper´s young children who keep their father´s secret safe.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Laughton; Charles
Script: Grubb; Davis, Agee; James
Production: Gregory; Paul
Photography: Cortez; Stanley
Sound: Naughton; Stanford
Music: Schumann; Walter
Cast:Mitchum; Robert, Winters; Shelley, Gish; Lillian, Chapin; Billy, Graves; Peter, Gleason; James, Beddoe; Don, Varden; Evelyn, Jane Bruce; Sally, Castillo; Gloria
Art direction: Brown; Hilyard
Participation year at FICM: 2012

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