" Lydia is observed brimming with lust and rending her clothes in sexual frenzy after Sumner leaves.Stoneman""s sexual obsession with her is "the great leader""s weakness that is to blight a nation."Soon, the young Stonemans must leave and return North, Phil vowing his fidelity to Margaret "that his only dreams shall be of her till they meet again.What""s happened? You look ill too.Armand: No, it""s seeing you like this, suffering.Marguerite: It""s nothing.It lasts only a minute.Armand: You""re killing yourself.Marguerite: If I am, you""re the only one who objects.Now, why don""t you go back and dance with one of those pretty girls.(She laughs) Come, I""ll go with you.(He embraces and kisses her hand.) What a child you are.Armand: Your hand""s so hot.Marguerite: Is that why you put tears on it and cool it?Armand: I know I don""t mean anything to you.I don""t count.But someone ought to look after you.And I could if you""d let me.Marguerite: Too much wine has made you sentimental.Armand: It wasn""t wine that made me come here every day for months o find out how you were.Marguerite: No, it couldn""t have been wine.So you""d really like o take care of me?Armand: Yes.Marguerite: All day, every day?Armand: All day, every day.Why not? (She laughs)Marguerite: Why should you care for a woman like me? I""m always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.Mature and wise, Superman emerged on an icy slope, wearing his classic red-blue-and yellow outfit, and gracefully flew off with his red cape fluttering behind him, straight into and then over the camera.He voyeuristically flips through the pictures - creating a peep-show effect.] Curly is so upset that he throws the pictures into the air and grabs the venetian blinds.The self-assured, unperturbed Jake understands his agonized pain and commiserates with him, but cooly and detachedly cautions him to stop gnawing on the newly-installed fixtures:All right, Curly, enough""s enough.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.