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The Night of the Hunter : Left Hand, Right Hand

Harry (Robert Mitchum) charms Willa Harper (Shelley Winters), the widow of a thief, and her children John (Billy Chapin) and Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce).

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Film Language

close-up, diegetic sound, dissolve, framing, intertextuality, leitmotif (literature and film), low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, monologue, reaction shot, shot/reverse shot, sound advance, stinger

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American

"Left Hand, Right Hand" in The Night of the Hunter. Directed by Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory Productions, 1955, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3306

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