THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER CHILDRENS LULLABY( A FILM BY CHARLES LAUGHTON 1955)

The Night of the Hunterincredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directedis truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Here they sing Pretty Fly (originally sung by Sally Jane Bruce as Pearl, but