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The Night of the Hunter : "Pretty Fly"

John (Billy Chapin) and Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce) accidentally reveal the $10,000 is stashed in Pearl's doll and escape from Harry (Robert Mitchum).

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acting, backlighting, chase sequence, close-up, cutaway, diegetic sound, dissolve, establishing shot, eyeline match, framing, full shot, graphic blocking, high angle, long shot, low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, diegetic, musical theme , over the shoulder shot, overhead shot, pan, reaction shot, set, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, sound mixing, stinger, superimposition, suspense

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

""Pretty Fly"" in The Night of the Hunter. Directed by Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory Productions, 1955, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3310

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