1.Charles Laughton made his only feature film in 1955 with The Night of the Hunter, a beloved classic of noir cinema. General Photographic Agency / Getty Images, Sunset Boulevard / Corbis via ...

Laughton’s work as an actor was well-recognized in his time, given he was active throughout the 1930s (including winning an Oscar for 1932’s The Private Life of Henry VIII) and into the early ...

Charles Laughton was not a conventional director, and he worked at a time in Hollywood history (the 1950s) when movies – though sometimes great – did feel potentially more sanitized than in ...