A 1955 box office flop from a one-time director was hailed by noted movie critic Roger Ebert as one of the best American ...

If Flannery O’Connor wrote screenplays, she would have written something like the 1955 Southern Gothic tale Night of the Hunter. Modern viewers of this film can go on a scary sojourn of discovery.

By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Universal has tapped Derrickson to direct an adaptation of The Night of the Hunter, the acclaimed 1953 crime novel by Davis Grubb that was previously turned into a ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — West Virginia Writer Davis Alexander Grubb is most remembered for his 1953 novel “The Night of the Hunter,” which was adapted into a now-classic movie in 1955 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is an image from the official trailer for “The Night of the Hunter” distributed by the ...

Reputationwise, The Night of the Hunter has belatedly gotten its due these past 70 years. Martin Scorsese and Roger Ebert are among those who lifted this cinematic dread-feast from commercial ...

Tuesday, it was revealed the Doctor Strange helmer would soon tackle a reimagining of The Night of the Hunter. A cinema classic some might say is one of the best films ever released, Derrickson is ...

Robert Cargill to adapt Davis Grubb’s thriller novel “The Night of the Hunter,” which was previously made into one of the all-time classic film noirs in 1955 by Charles Laughton.