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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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Interpret: Various - Soundtracks
Album titlle: The Night Of The Hunter narrated by Charles Laughton (CD)
Label Bear Family Records
Genre Pop
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127162632
weight in Kg 0.115

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