It has been a long time, but finally Wiener returned to SELECTOR status.

Wiener will remain the only Member to never suffer through an Indoor

Selection, and ‘The Night of the Hunter’ certainly would have suffered were

it shown indoors.  This marks Ben’s first Pick since ‘Bringing Up Baby’ bowed

in his old Back Yard on April 18th.

Charles Laughton’s only film, ‘The Night of the Hunter’ marks the Movienight

debut of both Robert Mitchum (a notorious friend of Bob, in fact Bob may well

be named after him), and the legendary Lillian Gish. Both of them appeared on

the Stucco in Tooda’s ‘Visions of Light,’ but we haven’t really been counting

appearances there in the overall stats.

Shelley Winters also debuts with this Pick, but she is already connected to Movienight quite intimately. She admits in her autobiography that she cheated on her boyfriend while living in Tooda’s building (I shit you not), with the one and only Marlon Brando. Her boyfriend came home unexpectedly during one such tryst, and Brando climbed out the bathroom window and down the rear fire escape of 7850 - just a stone’s throw from our original Back Yard.

Nubs, when he saw this page in rough form, complained that the above image of Gish with a rifle was a paltry choice given the visual beauty of this film -  but given the image chosen for the Pick almost exactly a year before this one, there was no other choice.

“They abide... and they endure.”