The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Cinema Studies Seminar with Prof. Maria DiBattista

Name: The Night of the Hunter (1955) | Cinema Studies Seminar with Prof. Maria DiBattista
Start: 2026-04-29T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Princeton Garden Theatre

Schedule

Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Princeton Garden Theatre | Princeton, NJ

Our Cinema Studies Seminars offer an engaging in-theater experience where professors explore a film of their choosing more in depth. All Seminar Ticket Holders will receive an introductory lecture before the film and a guided discussion after the film. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 for the screening and the screening + discussion at princetongardentheatre.org/specials
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲: Actor Charles Laughton’s sole directorial effort is the visually arresting noir NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. An intimidating Robert Mitchum stars in an unforgettable role as a mysterious religious con man who marries an unsuspecting widow in order to find money that had been hidden by her late husband. When her children try to thwart his plans, he begins a terrifying reign over the household.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: Maria DiBattista, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English at Princeton University, has taught and written widely on 20th century literature and film. She is the author of Fast Talking Dames, a study of American film comedy of the thirties and forties.
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