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Various - Soundtracks: The Night Of The Hunter narrated by Charles Laughton (CD)

1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 48-page booklet, 17 tracks. Playing time approx. 34 mns.
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER as told by Charles Laughton

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, for inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Let me tell you a tale of two children, of all children. Once upon an evil time of hunger and depression in our land, they lived with their mother, Willa, and their father, Ben Harper in a house by the river, cradled and comforted in the green arms of the great Ohio Valley. Their town was called Cresaps Landing, and the boy’s name was John, and the girl was Pearl.

Now, Ben Harper was a good man in an evil season, a hungry season; and one day, he took a gun to the bank where he drew his pay each week, and he slew two men. Wounded, he fled homeward with the stolen fortune, praying in his broken mind and body that this money might some day prove provender for his loved ones. That these ten thousand hundred dollars would shield his children from the cold shadow of wanton need that had chilled his own time on earth, and even as the police car screamed close behind him down the road to his home by the river, Ben hid the cursed, crinkling treasure in his little girl’s doll. And he made John swear, and he made Pearl swear that they would never tell, that they would never, never tell! And he made John swear that he would guard his little sister’s life with his own if need be, and John swore, and they took Ben away and sentenced him to hang.

Now by a strange and unholy chance, there happened to be in the same prison cell with Ben Harper, a man called Preacher. Ben was to hang, but Preacher would go free soon. All Preacher had done was to steal a car. Preacher was not a bad sort, Preacher was a man of the Lord at heart. You see his hands - look at the fingers, the tattooed fingers, the fingers of the left hand spell 'H-A-T-E' - 'hate', and those of the right hand spell 'L-O-V-E' - 'love'! Nooo, Preacher is a man of holiness.

“Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms
Leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms... “

But wait, let me tell you a secret. Wandering through the river towns for a decade, this false and evil prophet has murdered and robbed a score of women; foolish, lonely widows who saw in him a man of God, and a refuge from loneliness. Of course, it was really all right, Preacher used the money to spread the Lord’s Gospel. The Lord didn’t mind!

Now, when Preacher found himself in the cell with a man whose wife was about to become a widow, it set his wits to itching, and his fingers to yearning for the quick, whispering switchblade knife, which was to him Jehovah’s wrothful sword, and Preacher’s sly nose twitched at the spoor of easy widow’s money once again. Where was the money, he would ask Ben again and again, but Ben will not tell. He will never, never tell! And when at last he is hanged and Preacher goes free, what do you suppose that Preacher’s quest shall be?

It is a night of ghostly river mists at Cresaps Landing. A stranger has arrived on the midnight train. 

Now he stands, staring by the street lamp, wondering behind which of the dreaming small town windows his quarry sleeps. John and Pearl lie side by side in their feather bed, and Pearl asks John to tell her a story. And John begins a tale of kings and castles and the azure seas of far off Africa. The light of a street lamp shines a square on the bedroom wall, and now John spies shadow playing there, the figure of a man upon the road, by the street lamp’s yellow shine.

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Mitchum, Robert - The Night Of The Hunter narrated by Charles Laughton (CD) CD 1
01 Introduction Charles Laughton
02 The Story Begins Charles Laughton
03 Ben Harper's Downfall Charles Laughton
04 Ben's Prison Companion Charles Laughton
05 The Preacher's Plot Charles Laughton
06 Uncle Birdie Charles Laughton
07 John Hates The Preacher Charles Laughton
08 John Will Never Tell Charles Laughton
09 The Preacher Strikes Charles Laughton
10 The Children Hide Charles Laughton
11 The Children Flee Charles Laughton
12 Pearl's Dream Charles Laughton
13 Hunted Charles Laughton
14 Rachel Cooper Charles Laughton
15 Ruby Charles Laughton
16 Rachel Defends Her Charges Charles Laughton
17 Christmas-The Conclusion Charles Laughton
ROBERT MITCHUM   TALL DARK STRANGER Robert Mitchum war ein Paradoxon. Er war... more
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ROBERT MITCHUM  

TALL DARK STRANGER

Robert Mitchum war ein Paradoxon. Er war ein Mann, der sich zu Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber seiner Schauspielerei bekannte, aber von seinen Kollegen hoch geachtet wurde. Deborah Kerr, die mit ihm in "Heaven Knows Mister Allison" und "The Sundowners" spielte, sagte: "Als Schauspieler ist er großartig. Er ist ein fantastisch sensibler, anständiger Mensch." Mitchum erzählte Interviewern, dass er sich um nichts anderes kümmerte, als das Leben zu genießen, doch er arbeitete während seiner langen Karriere kontinuierlich, wie seine enorme Filmografie zeigt.

Obwohl die Musik nicht im Mittelpunkt von Mitchums Leben stand, war es immer etwas, das ihm Spaß machte und über das er sehr gut Bescheid wusste. Mitchum versuchte sich am Schreiben von Musik und Poesie und bei einigen Gelegenheiten wurde er zur Aufnahme überredet. Seine beiden Alben 'Calypso Is Like So' und' That Man' sind zusammen mit seiner Single-Aufnahme von The Ballad Of Thunder Road (die er als Cowriter geschrieben hat) auf 'That Man' (Bear Family BCD 15890 AH) zu hören.

Die Songs auf dieser CD können als die vergessenen Aufnahmen bezeichnet werden. Sie waren nicht zur Veröffentlichung bestimmt, aber zum Glück erblicken sie nun das Licht der Welt. Die ersten sechs Songs stammen alle aus dem Film 'Rachel And The Stranger'  von 1948, in dem Mitchum mit William Holden und Loretta Young spielte. Holden stellte einen Mann dar, der seine ganze Energie in den Bau eines Gehöfts steckt, während er seine Frau für selbstverständlich hält. Als ein Fremder, gespielt von Robert Mitchum, auftaucht, beginnt Holden zu erkennen, wie sehr er sie liebt und dass er ihr nicht genug Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt hat. Der gesamte Film ist von diesen sechs Liedern, die hier zu hören sind, durchsetzt. Sie sind so entspannt und wehmütig wie Mitchums Darstellung des Fremden.

1969 spielte Mitchum im Western 'Young Billy Young' mit Angie Dickinson und Robert Walker. Frei nach der vermeintlichen Freundschaft zwischen Wyatt Earp und Billy Clanton ist Mitchum ein Sheriff, der Robert Walker unter seine Fittiche nimmt. Mitchum sang den Titelsong über den Vor- und Nachspann des Films.

Der faszinierendste Teil dieses Albums sind die sieben Songs, die Robert Mitchum als Demos aufgenommen hat. Der genaue Zweck dieser Aufnahmen ist nicht ganz klar, aber der Genuss, den sie bieten, ist offensichtlich. Die meisten Songs sind Standards und Mitchum zeigt, dass er sich mit ihnen genauso wohl fühlt wie mit den Songs aus seinen Filmen.

Robert Mitchum war 79 Jahre alt, als er am 1. Juli 1997 in seinem Haus in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien, starb. Am Ende war er lässig, was seine Karriere angeht. "Ich denke, wenn Produzenten eine Rolle haben, die schwer zu besetzen ist, sagen sie: "Schickt nach Mitchum, er wird alles tun". Bei einer anderen Gelegenheit wurde er gefragt, warum er dachte, seine Karriere hätte so lange gedauert. "Ich arbeite billig" war seine selbstironische Antwort.

Der wahre Grund war seine Einzigartigkeit, seine Professionalität und die Tiefe seines Talents.

LAURENCE J. ZWISOHN

Robert Mitchum Tall Dark StrangerRead more at: https://www.bear-family.com/mitchum-robert-tall-dark-stranger.html
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Tracklist
Mitchum, Robert - The Night Of The Hunter narrated by Charles Laughton (CD) CD 1
01 Introduction
02 The Story Begins
03 Ben Harper's Downfall
04 Ben's Prison Companion
05 The Preacher's Plot
06 Uncle Birdie
07 John Hates The Preacher
08 John Will Never Tell
09 The Preacher Strikes
10 The Children Hide
11 The Children Flee
12 Pearl's Dream
13 Hunted
14 Rachel Cooper
15 Ruby
16 Rachel Defends Her Charges
17 Christmas-The Conclusion