The Night of the Hunter

Movie Summary: In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Queer Film LA Says: It's not just the camp value of Lillian Gish with a shotgun--this film is the only directorial effort from closeted actor Charles Laughton, and through that lens you can't help but see more in its serial-killing preacher targeting women whose sexual freedom he resents.