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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3559685, member: 2504"] I saw Night of the Hunter for the first time several years ago. Great movie, it is another all time classic. It just might be Robert Mitchum's best film performance. Also, a great supporting role for Lillian Gish as well. This just might be the best movie ever by someone who directed only one film. Of course, Charles Laughton had a very notable career as an actor. Speaking of Laughton, I just thought of one of his films that would fit in very well in this thread. "Ruggles of Red Gap" is a film about a British butler who's aristocratic employer loses his services to an American couple in a poker game. Laughton's butler is then transported from high society Europe to the American West at the beginning of the 20th Century. Talk about a fish out of water. This is an absolutely marvelous comedy, and one that does a nice job at pointing out differences in the class structure of both Britain and America. This film is also notable for the quotation of a classic piece of American political oratory, something that became a staple of Laughton's career when he made personal appearances when not making films. [/QUOTE]