THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER - CHILDREN’S LULLABY(A FILM BY CHARLES LAUGHTON - 1955)

The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Here they sing “Pretty Fly“ (originally sung by Sally Jane Bruce as Pearl, but