HARRY POWELL
Robert Mitchum
Night of the Hunter (1955)
In Charles Laughton's dreamlike melodrama, Mitchum's itinerant preacher (with the famous ''L-O-V-E'' and ''H-A-T-E'' tattoos on his knuckles) emerges like a monster from a child's nightmare. In fact, he's stalking two kids for the fortune they unwittingly possess, and his murderous greed disguised as righteousness can be stopped only by real righteousness, in the form of rifle-toting matriarch Lillian Gish. —Gary Susman
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