
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Cast

Robert Mitchum
Preacher Harry Powell

Shelley Winters
Willa Harper

Lillian Gish
Rachel Cooper

Billy Chapin
John Harper

Sally Jane Bruce
Pearl Harper

James Gleason
Uncle Birdie Steptoe

Evelyn Varden
Icey Spoon

Don Beddoe
Walt Spoon

Peter Graves
Ben Harper

James Griffith
District Attorney

Gloria Castillo
Ruby

Gloria Pall
Burlesque Dancer

Paul Bryar
Bart
Cheryl Callaway
Mary
Alexander Campbell
Judge

Michael Chapin
Ruby's Boyfriend
Roy Engel
Sheriff
Kay Lavelle
Miz Cunningham

Frances Morris
Bart's Wife
Rudy Germane
Townsman (uncredited)
Crew

Charles Laughton
Director, Screenplay

James Agee
Screenplay
Davis Grubb
Novel
Robert Golden
Editor

Stanley Cortez
Director of Photography
Milton Carter
Assistant Director
Paul Gregory
Producer
Jerry Bos
Wardrobe Designer
Evelyn Carruth
Wardrobe Assistant
Kay Shea
Hairstylist
Don L. Cash
Makeup Artist
Stanford Houghton
Sound
Jack Rabin
Special Effects
Louis DeWitt
Special Effects
Walter Schumann
Original Music Composer
Alfred E. Spencer
Set Decoration
Joe LaBella
Property Master
Ruby Rosenberg
Production Manager
Hilyard M. Brown
Art Direction



















