Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955). His tattooed knuckles proclaim LOVE and HATE, turning the language of morality into an instrument of manipulation. An Independent Daily Strange Investigation into Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter (1955) Standfirst Harry Powell wears the language of salvation as convincingly as he wears his preacher’s black suit. In Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum creates a murderer whose mos