In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Robert Mitchum
as Preacher Harry Powell
Billy Chapin
as John Harper
Sally Jane Bruce
as Pearl Harper
Shelley Winters
as Willa Harper
Lillian Gish
as Rachel Cooper
James Gleason
as Uncle Birdie Steptoe
Evelyn Varden
as Icey Spoon
Don Beddoe
as Walt Spoon
Peter Graves
as Ben Harper
James Griffith
as District Attorney
Gloria Castillo
as Ruby
Gloria Pall
as Burlesque Dancer
