The Night of the Hunter (Film Ink Series) - Softcover

Grubb, Davis

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9781853753206: The Night of the Hunter (Film Ink Series)

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ISBN 10: 1853753203 ISBN 13: 9781853753206

Publisher: Prion Books, 1999

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When Ben Harper is taken to the gallows for a bank robbery killing, he leaves his young children to hide the stolen money. Shortly after, a stranger comes to town, claiming to know their father. It soon becomes clear that he has a dark purpose. David Grubb's haunting masterpiece flows through the Depression-era landscape with the lyrical magic of a fairy tale as the children flee their malevolent hunter to a terrifying end. The Night of the Hunter was adapted for the screen in 1954, the year after its original publication. Directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, it is regarded as one of Hollywood's finest films of the fifties.

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About the Author:

Davis Grubb (1919–1980) was an American short-story writer and novelist. Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, he moved to New York City in 1940 to be a writer. His stories were published in magazines such as Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, and Woman’s Home Companion, and in three collections. The Night of the Hunter, the first of his ten novels, was an instant bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. Some of his short stories were adapted for television on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Rod Serling’s Night Gallery; his novel Fools’ Parade was the basis for a 1971 film starring James Stewart.

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This superb, suspenseful novel formed the basis of the only film ever directed by Charles Laughton, a cult classic starring Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish, and Shelly Winters. During the Depression, a psychopath masquerading as an itinerant preacher, begins a ruthless quest for ill-gotten loot, the whereabouts of which are known only by the young son of a dead thief and his younger sister. Jeff Harding pulls out all the stops, fully-voicing the West Virginia characters and contributing a spooky grumble to the narration. At times he sends shivers up your spine; at other times he is melodramatic, bathetic, or unintentionally funny. He is, however, never dull, and neither is this book. Y.R. � AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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