50 Movie Challenge, 23 and 24
23. The Night of the Hunter. 1955. Directed by Charles Laughton. Mitchum is mesmerizing and terrifically creepy. While some of the sets were laughably fake (one house looked as if it were a cardboard cutout silhouetted against the sky), this movie still packs a wallop of tension. It can’t be coincidence, can it, that in the end, a character notes that “Children abide” while Jeff Bridges noted at the end of The Big Lebowski that “The Dude abides”?
24. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. 2003. Directed by Peter Weir. An entertaining, well-crafted and not over-the-top epic. Russell Crowe has good hair, and carries off puffy shirts well.
May 17th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
Re. “Night of the Hunter,” remember the scene where the children are in the rowboat in the foreground, and the Preacher is shown in the background in silhouette, riding a horse ?
Mitchum says it was a midget on a pony.