The film flips the action of the first two installments of the novel. The first book, "The Two Dead Girls," begins with John Coffey arriving on the Mile, but at this point Arlen Bitterbuck has already been executed and Eduard Delacroix already has his mouse. The second book goes back to before John's arrival and tells of Bitterbuck's fate and the origins of the mouse.
The Night of the Hunter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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During the trial at the end of the movie, the crowd is chanting "Bluebeard!" This is in reference to a French folktale of a man who married several women and then killed them.
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Stanley Cortez, the film's cinematographer, had also worked on Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). He remarked some years after the making of this film that only two directors he'd worked with had understood light, "that incredible thing that can't be described": Welles and Laughton.
The Night of the Hunter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Night of the Hunter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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