The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film, by Jeffrey Couchman (March 2009).
"The only film ever directed by the great character actor Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter failed miserably when it opened in 1955. But since then it has come to be recognized as one of American cinema's greatest masterpieces. Shot in glorious black and white, this poetic, highly stylized movie is half-Gothic nightmare, half-morality play, a pastoral film noir set along the banks of the serene Ohio River. Cahiers du Cinéma ranks it as the second most beautiful film of all time (after Citizen Kane and just above The Rules of the Game). In this enthralling 'biography,' Jeffrey Couchman traces how the cinematic classic came to be made."
From the Washington Post Book Review
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