Factual error: After Harry Powell disappears from in front of Ms. Cooper's yard, a barn owl swoops down on a rabbit. We can hear the owl's wings flap even though barn owls make no noise when they fly.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Charles Laughton
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Rachel Cooper (Gish) finds the kids and takes them into her home. When Harry Powell (Mitchum) finds them, Cooper gets her shotgun and scares Powell away. But he comes back later, Cooper is there waiting for him with her shotgun and when she sees him inside the house, she fires at him and hits him in the shoulder or arm, which makes him run out of the house and into her barn. In the morning, the police come for Powell and arrest him for the murder of Willa Harper, for which he will be hanged for. As the cops are arresting Powell, John thinking in his mind that he is watching his father being arrested again, grabs Pearl's doll and tries to give it to Powell, which accidentally opens the doll up, showing the stolen money. The kids stay with Cooper.
Big Evil
More mistakes in The Night of the Hunter
Rev. Harry Powell: I can hear you whisperin' children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience children. I'm coming to find you now.
Question: It's never explained how Harry Powell gets that Model-T into the middle of the lake. Any possible answers?
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