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 ...

It was time for Laughton to bring some F.W. Murnau-style magic back to cinema. Though reviled and critically lambasted back in its day, The Night of the Hunter’s audacious filmmaking has aged ...

Later in the Laughton version, Lear’s return to reason was a slow and convincing process. As the madness ebbed, the head stopped bobbing, the eyes grew steady, the back straightened.

1939 - Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. 1939 - Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. A young woman seeks refuge at a remote Cornish inn. However, she soon discovers a dark ...

Among her other favorites: “Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s book.

Without a doubt, The Night of the Hunter is the best film Charles Laughton ever directed, and it could also technically be called the worst film he ever directed, and the only way that can make ...