When she expresses regret at the murder, Spade doesn""t want to hear it: "Stop it.He knew what he was doing.Those are the chances we ake." The detective explains how the remorseless widow will benefit from his life insurance policy:With ten thousand in insurance, no children, and a wife that didn""t like him." She leans forward toward Hackett: "I hink we""ve lucked into something." A ruthless, calculating opportunist, she recognizes the potential of increased ratings and financial success if Howard""s sound-offs are properly developed as info-tainment to ""articulate the popular rage"":Diana: We just increased our audience by twenty or hirty million people in one night." Clouds in the night sky shaped themselves into a giant Freddy, as Dylan precariously walked across the dangerous freeway.BackgroundThe Night of the Hunter(1955) is a truly compelling, haunting, and frightening classic masterpiece thriller-fantasy, and the only film ever directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton.Lamott: You""re dealing, then, with someone so obsessed that he or she is willing to kill an irrelevant and innocent victim in order o place the blame on the person who wrote that book.