It’s a hard world for little things.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
$795,000
July 26, 1955
Paul Gregory Productions, United Artists
20 people
Robert Mitchum
Preacher Harry Powell
Acting
Shelley Winters
Willa Harper
Acting
Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper
Acting
Billy Chapin
John Harper
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Sally Jane Bruce
Pearl Harper
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James Gleason
Uncle Birdie Steptoe
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Evelyn Varden
Icey Spoon
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Don Beddoe
Walt Spoon
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Peter Graves
Ben Harper
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James Griffith
District Attorney
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Gloria Castillo
Ruby
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Gloria Pall
Burlesque Dancer
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