Night of the Hunter (1955)

Directed by Charles Laughton

Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason and Peter Graves

Screenplay by James Agee (based, almost encyclopedicall y, on book by Davis Grubb)

Oddly enough, was released Thanksgiving, 1955 (it was kind of a Christmas movie, believe it or not!).  When you see the movie, you’ll get the references.  It’s wonderfully weird…