Night of the Hunter (1991 film)
Night of the Hunter is a 1991 American television film directed by David Greene starring Richard Chamberlain as a self-styled preacher who is a psychotic serial killer pursuing two children for $50,000 in money stolen by their father after marrying and murdering their widowed mother (Diana Scarwid).Burgess Meredith's character of an aging river rat seems superfluous, perhaps indicating something ended up on the cutting room floor.And the final chase sequence lacks the punch the rest of the film has set you up for."[3] The San Francisco Examiner's Joyce Millman thought it was a poorly done remake, with the only standout being Chamberlain's "mesmerizing" performance.[2] A generation later, Turner Classic Movies' biography of Richard Chamberlain says that the 1980's "King of the Miniseries", as he aged and transitioned into the new decade of the 1990s "...was very effective as the father of a robbery victim in Aftermath: A Test of Love (CBS, 1991), but less so as the psychotic preacher made famous by Robert Mitchum in an ill-advised remake of Night of the Hunter (ABC, 1991)".