Robert Mitchum in the The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Will you come?
When there are no more sweets
For your cracked lips,
But a teathfull mouth?
Will you come?
When your scorched hands
Clumsily carve a lilac
In the common blood.
Will you come?
When she wraps your finger
In a dead wheat leaf,
When the spouse marries you
And dances on her smelly toes…
Will you come?
When God, drenched in love,
Walks among us and sits,
On the electric chair?
Will you raise as we did,
The treacherous knife of life ?
From which more will be brought
Into this brothel of horrors,
Where all shadows are poisoned
By a fatherless sun,
So will you come?
Son, will you come?
S.C.R.I.B.E.
P.S. : This poem was inspired by The Night of the Hunter. The plot focuses on a corrupt minister-turned-serial killer who attempts to charm an unsuspecting widow and steal the money hidden by her executed husband.
The director, Charles Laughton was a major Hollywood star in the early days of the film industry. He appeared in some 65 films, such as Ruggles of Red Gap, Island of Lost Souls, Mutiny of The Bounty, Witness for the Prosecution, The Private Life of Henry VIII, and The Canterville Ghost, all must-watch movies. Apart from a one-week job on Burgess Meredith's The Man on the Eiffel Tower, The Night of the Hunter remains Laughton's only film, and one of the most achieved piece in Cinema History.
Because of the distributor's complete failure to support the film, it was not a commercial success and Laughton took it very much to heart, never directing again. Years later, Robert Mitchum said that Laughton was his favorite director, and that Night of the Hunter was his favorite film, out of all the films he had ever made.
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