Event time:
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 7:00pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
Yale University Library Cinemix Film Series presents a film screening.
“The Night of the Hunter.” (Charles Laughton, 1955, 35mm, 92 mins)
A serial killer and self-styled preacher pursues a gullible widow he hopes to swindle, while her two young children try to keep his tattooed fingers off their father’s stolen loot. Set in West Virginia during the Great Depression, this nightmarish noir thriller stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. “One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains” (Michael Wilmington).
Co-presented with the Yale Film & Media Studies Program.
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public