The Book & the Movie: The Night of the Hunter | Davis Grubb, 1953 / Charles Laughton, 1955
”His name was Harry Powell but everyone called him Preacher…
…You never hear him coming up steps because his feet are like leaves falling, like shadows in the moonlight…
…It was a secret that was a little world of its own. A terrible little world like an island upon whose haunted beach he wandered alone now, like a solitary and stricken Crusoe, while everywhere about him his eyes would find the footprint of the dangling man.”
”Shall I tell you the little story of Right−Hand−Left−Hand—the tale of Good and Evil?”

Ben listens to the familiar sermon; shudders with a kind of curious delight as Preacher writhes the fingers of his two tattooed hands together and twists them horribly, cracking the knuckles as the fingers grapple one hand with the other.
Warring, boy! Warring together! Left hand and right hand! Hate and Love! Good and Evil! But wait. Hot dog! Old Devil’s a−losin’, Ben! He’s a slippin’, boy!
And now Preacher brings both hands down with a climactic crash on the wooden bench by the bunks. Then he is silent, crouched in the darkness, smiling at the glory of God in his evil fingers.”
Robert Mitchum with Davis Grubb, the author of Night of the Hunter
Directed by Charles Laughton
Screenplay by James Agee, Charles Laughton
Based on the novel The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Music by Walter Schumann
Ο δολοφόνος
Αυτό το παιχνίδι παίζεται με τέσσερα ή περισσότερα παιδιά που κάθονται σ' ένα κύκλο. Το πρώτο παιδί σηκώνεται και ψιθυρίζει σ' ένα παιδί τη λέξη "δολοφόνος" , σ' ένα άλλο παιδί τη λέξη "αστυνόμος" και στα υπόλοιπα παιδιά τη λέξη "θύμα".
Μετά, το πρώτο παιδί φεύγει από το παιχνίδι και ο "δολοφόνος" κλείνει το μάτι σ' ένα άλλο παιδί. Αν το παιδί είναι ο "αστυνόμος" τότε συλλαμβάνει τον "δολοφόνο". Αν είναι "θύμα" τότε το "σκοτώνει" ο "δολοφόνος". Το παιχνίδι συνεχίζεται μέχρι ο "δολοφόνος" να "σκοτώσει" όλα τα "θύματα" ή ο "αστυνόμος" να τον συλλάβει.
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