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The Night of the Hunter : A Hard World for Little Things

Harry (Robert Mitchum) tracks down John (Billy Chapin) and Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce). Ms. Cooper (Lillian Gish) and Harry have an all-night standoff.

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acting, ambient sound , backlighting, close-up, diegetic sound, dissolve, dolly shot, establishing shot, framing, full shot, leitmotif (sound), low-key lighting, match on action, medium close-up, medium shot, music, diegetic, natural lighting, performance, point-of-view shot, rack focus, set, source lighting, two-shot

Diversity in Media Representation

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

"A Hard World for Little Things" in The Night of the Hunter. Directed by Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory Productions, 1955, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3313

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