Movies / The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Keywords
- 1930s
- adrift
- alcoholic
- allegory
- animal
- arrest
- banjo
- bank robbery
- based on novel
- basket
- bathroom
- bathtub
- beautiful woman
- bedtime story
- beggar
- begging
- bible
- bible story
- bird cage
- blood
- bluebeard
- book
- boy
- breaking down a door
- breaking the fourth wall
- brother sister relationship
- bunk bed
- cafe
- campfire
- canning
- car theft
- cat
- cellar
- charity
- charm bracelet
- chase
- childhood
- child in peril
- children
- christmas
- christmas decoration
- christmas present
- church
- cobblestone
- corpse
- corpse in water
- cotton
- court
- courtroom
- cow
- cranking a car
- crying
- cult favorite
- dancer
- dancing
- dandelion wine
- dead body
- death
- death of father
- death of husband
- defiant child
- dog
- doll
- double negative
- drawing
- drinking
- drunkenness
- dysfunctional family
- evil
- evil man
- evil preacher
- ex convict
- execution
- execution by hanging
- executioner
- expressionism
- face slap
- false preacher
- false prophet
- family relationships
- fanatic
- farm
- father daughter relationship
- father in jail
- father son relationship
- fishing
- fog
- folding napkin
- ford model t
- foster parent
- fox
- friendship
- fruit picker
- game playing
- garden
- girl
- good versus evil
- great depression
- gun
- gypsy
- hair brush
- handcuffs
- hanging
- hangman
- hangman drawing
- hate
- hayloft
- henpecked husband
- hidden money
- hide and seek
- hog
- honeymoon
- horse
- horse riding
- horse thief
- houseboat
- husband wife relationship
- hymn
- hypocrisy
- hysteria
- ice cream
- ice cream parlor
- impotence
- innocence
- jail cell
- jailhouse
- jesus christ
- judge
- knife
- knuckles
- letter
- liar
- lie
- lifting person in air
- lifting someone into the air
- loot
- loss of father
- loss of husband
- loss of mother
- love
- lust
- lynch mob
- male female relationship
- maniac
- marriage
- merry christmas
- mind game
- mirror
- misogyny
- mob
- model t ford
- money
- moon
- moses
- mother daughter relationship
- mother son relationship
- movie magazine
- murder
- necktie
- newsstand
- nightshirt
- oath
- oedipus complex
- ohio river
- orphan
- owl
- paddlewheel boat
- paper doll
- peach orchard
- penitentiary
- perfume
- photograph
- picnic
- pocket watch
- police
- police car
- policeman
- police siren
- pot holder
- preacher
- present
- prison
- prison cell
- prison guard
- promise
- prophet
- psychological torment
- psychopath
- psychotic
- psychotronic
- pursuit
- rabbit
- reading
- reference to adam and eve
- religion
- religious fanatic
- religious zealot
- remarriage
- restaurant
- reverend
- revival meeting
- rifle
- river
- river bank
- riverboat
- rocking chair
- rowboat
- runaway
- rural setting
- salvation
- scrub brush
- secret
- serial killer
- sewing lesson
- shadow
- shared bed
- sheep
- shelf falling on someone's head
- sheriff
- shore
- shotgun
- singer
- singing
- slamming a door on someone's hand
- sleeping
- small town
- smelling salts
- snoring
- snow
- snowing
- song
- southern gothic
- spanking
- spiderweb
- starlit night
- state trooper
- steamboat
- stepfather stepdaughter relationship
- stepfather stepson relationship
- stick knife
- stolen money
- storytelling
- street preacher
- strip club
- stripper
- striptease
- stuffing a cloth into someone's mouth
- surrogate mother
- suspicion
- switchblade
- tabernacle
- talking in one's sleep
- talking to a doll
- talking to a photograph
- talking to god
- talking to one's self
- tattling
- tattoo
- tearing off an arm
- tears
- teenage boy
- teenage girl
- telephone call
- temptation
- theft
- thief
- threat
- torch
- train
- uxoricide
- villain played by lead actor
- waitress
- washing hair
- wedding night
- west virginia
- whiskey
- widow
- widower
- wound