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Leave it to my choice to go all the way, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, to take down Bergman's classic. I think people sleep on just how beloved HUNTER has become over the years. Thanks to folks like Martin Scorsese singing its praises over the years, more and more cinephiles have discovered and fallen in love with Charles Laughton's masterpiece. Even to this day, no film has captured the same sort of dreamlike menace as this film, and Mitchum gives the ultimate villain performance. I want to see HUNTER go all the way. Can it defeat THE SEVEN SAMURAI? If it can, I believe nothing can stop it.
I’m going to my letterbox top 200 of all time list for this one. Not my best of 50’s list. Seventh Seal comes in at 54. Night of the Hunter at 47. So practically a tie considering the thousands of movies I’ve seen. I’ll be happy whichever wins. And sad whichever loses. But essential for everyone to watch both at least 4 or 5 times
Without "The Seventh Seal," we wouldn't have "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey." And who wants to live in a world like that?
The Seventh Seal has overperformed and is due a comeuppance.
These are both blindspots that I caught up with recently just to torture myself in the latter stages of the Madness. While I respect Bergman's audacious editing and the luminous humanity of The Seventh Seal, I just had to go with Robert Mitchum's delightful dastardly villain and his comeuppance in this one. But only because you made me do it.
Not a hard one for me. The Seventh Seal is, of course, an amazing film, but The Night of the Hunter is on my Letterboxd top four.