In the prologue the four musketeers stand in a framing device, as a medieval stage booth, and D'Artagnan steps forward and speaks to the audience, then steps back and resumes his position with the other three, who remained motionless; after the mid-point intermission, the same situation is repeated, with D'Artagnan speaking again to the audience, finishing with the words, "once more, once more . . . ", after which the film resumes with the title card "20 years later". These were the first lines of dialogue ever spoken on film by Douglas Fairbanks, in his last silent film.
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
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