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Night of the Hunter [EPUB ebook]

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This is an examination of ‘The Night of the Hunter’, Charles Laughton’s only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 79 ● ISBN 9781839020377 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8026211 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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