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Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Themes
- Call
- "Rev Harry Powell" uses religious language and the disguise of a preacher to describe his "call" to find another woman to rob and murder. (Not all "call" are genuine, either those perceived or those expressed.)
- Moses/Exodus
- The children escape in a boat through "bulrushes".
- Prayer
- The false prayer of "Rev Harry Powell" which uses all of the right religious words, but which asks God to lead him to his next victim. (Probably more common - though the evil is more intensely obvious - than most of us would like to admit.)
- Struggle Between Good and Evil
- Harry Powell's sermon about the struggle between "love" and "hate" as he uses the object lesson of his hands - knuckles tattooed with "love" and "hate"
- Call
