"Beware of false prophets that come to you in sheeps clothing."
A wandering preacher breezes into small town West Virginia. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) speaks to God, steals cars and has a vocation to kill gulible widows for their money. One such is Willa Harper (Shelley Winters), whose husband was hung for robbing a bank of $10,000. $10,000 that was never recovered. Powell desires that money and finds out that her children may know where the money is. Now if only he could get them to talk.
An extraordinary film, that incorporates elements of film noir, expressionism, and horror into a childs fable; set in a slightly unreal and surreal world. A masterpiece directed with wit and imagination that needs investigating.
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