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The Washington Post | February 26, 2009| | Copyright

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

A Biography of a Film

By Jeffrey Couchman

Northwestern Univ. 284 pp. Paperback, $24.95 "I see you're looking at my hands," says the Rev. Harry Powell. The black-suited preacher -- played by cobra-lidded Robert Mitchum -- sits on a stool in an ice cream parlor in Depression-era West Virginia. His knuckles are tattooed with the words LOVE and HATE, and in just a moment the hypocritical, sexually repressed, homicidal maniac will mime the never-ending battle between good and evil, between Mr. Right Hand and Mr. Left Hand. No one ever forgets the Rev. Harry Powell's ...

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