James was unaware of Charles Laughton’s masterpiece ‘The Night of the Hunter’, so he watched it with Dan and they recorded a podcast about it. As the only feature to be directed by Laughton, ‘The Night of the Hunter’ is a unique one-off experience that has become one of the most influential movies of all time, but is this mix of noir, horror and gothic fairy-tale still effective and is Robert Mitchum still terrifying?   In this episode, we reference the following video of Charles Laughton directing the actors in the movie:  https://youtu.be/1vG4AiYDs-w?si=KnIMVOKeFyZE2H1Z Follow us on Twitter @talkinfilm, view our posts on TikTok @talkin_film, find and like our page on Facebook and please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what we’re doing, please recommend us and leave us a positive review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.