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There was a time when ROBERT REDFORD was known more for his face than his grace. Reminiscing at New York City's New School last week, Redford told of an early-'60s TV show in which he had to slap Charles Laughton. In rehearsal, Laughton told Redford to keep his hands off, but when the camera rolled, said Redford, "I just hit him as hard as I could...
Director Charles Laughton develops a melodramatic tone with eerie background music by Walter Schumann. A sense of looming danger pervades the movie, as a dramatic victory of good over evil slowly unfolds. The Night of the Hunter, written in 1955, is the forerunner of the modern horror film, but this movie retains its tact while keeping up the intriguing suspense...
...Laughton; 94 minutes...
More ironic, in the field of crime, women are achieving a dubious sort of equality with men. Mandatory minimum-sentencing laws passed in the late 1970s and early '80s have forced judges to hand out long sentences to women. Says Carole Laughton, an inmate of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, N.J.: "With equal opportunity and all that,we're getting longer time. It has hurt...
...memorable scenes show Sparrow alone with his cacophony of fears, climbing arduously up to a bell tower where he can hear the euphony of wind and birds and a distantly remembered lullaby, until a screeching train cuts off his reverie. Emotive yet astringent, these are moments worthy of Charles Laughton in a play sometimes deserving of comparison with Gorky's The Lower Depths. If Soviet theater remains for the most part an art in search of significant new voices, in this play and production it has found...