What movie had Robert Mitchum as an evil preacher with tattoos on his

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

fingers spelling L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E which he would tell a story about?

Forgot and this has been bothering me.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. Night of the Hunter. nt

[LSparkle]

3. I believe you're right.

Saw it recently on TCM. What an effective creep Mitchum was!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

6. That's one of my favorites!

It still creeps me out when Mitchum sings, "Bringing in the Sheaves". Oooh.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. He was scary as hell as the bad guy in the original "Cape Fear" too.

I saw that original black and white movie on TV when I was a kid and even the implied menace and violence scared the hell out of me.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Aha... I think you are right! Thanks!

[terrya]

7. Yep...the only film Charles Laughton directed.

Superb film.

Lillian Gish was also very good in it.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

10. I heard Laughton was afraid of making Mitchum out

to be such a villian.
I also loved Gish as well.

[XemaSab]

2. wasn't u-turn, was it?

n/t

[stopbush]

5. Night of the Hunter?

[Sequoia]

8. Night of the Hunter

Excellent scary movie. This one, not the dumb remake.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. There was a remake of this???

[Sequoia]

15. I seem to remember it, but not under the same name.

Better do a search. Unless I'm thinking of Cape Fear.

[Sequoia]

17. Yes, 1991 with Richard Chamberlain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102533/combined

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. Ugh, just based on casting alone...

[Sequoia]

20. Yes, it pretty much sucked.

Chamberlain as a bad guy is lame. Stick to Robert that's the very best one and very scary. Those little children were cute as buttons.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. Yeah, check the movie pic in post #8. Richard CHAMBERLAIN is

gonna top THAT for pure badass menace? I don't think so.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

12. Man, that's a good movie

I saw that for the first time a few months ago.

Creepy, creepy stuff.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

13. I love that beautiful shot of Shelly Winters dead

at the bottom of the lake sitting in a car and some of the shots inside the house.
There's some beautiful cinematography in that film.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. I just Googled and cannot find a still of either that shot or

the other most memorable shot, that of Lillian Gish seated in front of the window with a rifle across her lap.

A friend of mine remembered those two shots despite not having seen the film for forty years.

Robert Mitchum was perfect for the role of the sociopathic (with hints of pedophilia--he refuses to have sex with Shelly Winters after their wedding and seems awfully interested in the little girl) preacher/con man.

[trof]

14. Yeah, but if it hadn't been for "Thunder Road"

there's be no NASCAR.
That was one inspiring movie.

[Sequoia]

16. Forget NASCAR

just hand over the whisky, gin, or rum.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. I remember "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" paying a lot of homage to "Thunder

Road". One of my favorite childhood car chase movies, along with "Smokey and the Bandit", "Vanishing Point"...