It's an incredible movie, and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend giving it a try. Robert Mitchum's performance as a preacher/serial killer trying to terrorise two kids into telling him where their father hid his money is probably the best he's ever been. He wanted that role right away, and he brings all the charisma and sex appeal to it that it needs.
I'm wondering if this scene was an inspiration for some of Richard Armitage's scenes as Francis Dolarhyde in Hannibal, with the triangular gable and the extremely deliberate body language/movements.
A fantastic adaptation of a chilling book, this film features one of the all-time best villain performances with Robert Mitchum's Rev. Harry Powell, a serial killer using religion to justify his killing of women and children. This is also where the famous "Love/Hate" knuckle tattoos come from. The film exudes so much southern gothic horror and I can not recommend it enough.
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These two musicians accidentally get involved with the mafia, I think they witness a murder but my memory is foggy, they then need to escape but the only way they can do so is by joining a women's orchestra. So they dress up like women. One forms a relationship with a girl played by Marilyn Monroe whilst technically still in disguise as a girl and the other forms a relationship with a man who is intent on marrying him. The film ends with the latter man taking off his disguise in a bid to convince the man that fell in love with him that their relationship won't work (despite having feelings for him), it essentially goes "you can't marry me because I'm a man!" To which the other responded "nobody's perfect'. Its just a really sweet movie especially for the subject matter and time period, it makes me very happy.
The “ as you washed blood from your clothes you can clean up your clothes you never clean your soul” reminds me of “I forgave you ages ago. You’re all right. / Did you forgive yourself?”😭