This movie was inspired by a case where The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971) invited Penny Chenery in 1973 to bring her horse, the legendary Triple Crown winner Secretariat to appear on the show. Chenery, knowing her horse wouldn't care for a TV studio, declined.
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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