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Quiet Dell

Quiet Dell

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Robert Mitchum's preacher in The Night of the Hunter was inspired by real murders that also shaped Jayne Anne Phillips's novel Quiet Dell.

Ed and Melanie trace the link between book and film, exploring how truth becomes myth and how art transforms tragedy.
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