The Night of the Hunter (1955) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • A little teenager is manipulated into thinking she is in love with an older man.
  • A woman dances sexually in a revealing outfit for a show.
  • On their wedding night, a wife indicates consummation, but the husband lashes out, saying a wife's body should be used for motherhood and not for men's lust.

Violence & Gore

  • Corporal punishment against a boy.
  • With the murders and the frightening scenes, the film would likely be PG-13. Not meant for small children.
  • A man slaps a woman abusively on the face.
  • There is a scene were we see the legs of dead body (partially covered by a door). It's not graphic though.

Profanity

  • 1 use of hell (the literal place), and a use of whore. The use of whore is used against the madam and young children.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Nothing significant. A character is shown very briefly taking a sip. A man in crisis drinks himself into a stupor, falls on the floor and cannot be woken.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A ten year old boy gets hit for running away from getting his hair roughly washed. A woman chases him behind a bush and starts hitting him hard. He is not seen but many swats are heard.
  • Some scenes may be scary for young children. The entire atmosphere is often nightmarish, depicting a murderer pursuing a woman and her children to obtain money.
  • A man threatens to slice a child's neck.

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Violence & Gore

  • At the end on the movie, Harry Powell is shot in the shoulder. The scene is creepy and we later see the wound on his jacket.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • One of the most upsetting scenes shows the children's mother dead in a car underwater.

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