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Preacher Harry Powell, the Glossary

Harry Powell is a fictional character in Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, known as "Preacher".^[1]

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains

AFI's 100 Years...

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British-American actor.

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Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state.

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Davis Grubb

Davis Alexander Grubb (July 23, 1919 – July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, which was adapted as a film in 1955 by Charles Laughton.

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Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Spike Lee.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Good and evil

In philosophy, religion, and psychology, "good and evil" is a common dichotomy.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Harry Powers

Harry F. Powers (born Harm Drenth; November 17, 1892 – March 18, 1932) was a Dutch-born American serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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John Kricfalusi

Michael John Kricfalusi (born September 9, 1955), known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and former animator and voice actor.

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Lonely hearts killer

A lonely hearts killer (also called want-ad killer) is a criminal who commits murder by contacting a victim who has either posted advertisements to or answered advertisements via newspaper classified ads and personal or lonely hearts ads.

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Meredith Corporation

Meredith Corporation was an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, that owned newspapers, magazines, television stations, and websites.

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Motor vehicle theft

Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle.

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Moundsville, West Virginia

Moundsville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River.

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld.

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Night of the Hunter (1991 film)

Night of the Hunter is a 1991 American television film directed by David Greene starring Richard Chamberlain as a self-styled preacher who is a psychotic serial killer pursuing two children for $50,000 in money stolen by their father after marrying and murdering their widowed mother (Diana Scarwid).

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Parkersburg, West Virginia

Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States.

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Preacher

A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people.

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Richard Chamberlain

George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American actor and singer who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966).

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

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Sam Winchester

Samuel "Sam" Winchester is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists of the American drama television series Supernatural along with his older brother, Dean. Preacher Harry Powell and Sam Winchester are fictional con artists.

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Scam

A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.

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Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of 180 episodes.

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Serial killer

A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two or more people,An offender can be anyone.

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Sermon

A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher, usually a member of clergy.

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Skiff

A skiff is any of a variety of essentially unrelated styles of small boats, usually propelled by sails or oars.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Supernatural (American TV series)

Supernatural is an American television series created by Eric Kripke.

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Tattoo

A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band that formed in London in 1976 and were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Night of the Hunter (film)

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir thriller directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish.

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The Night of the Hunter (novel)

The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb.

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The Ren & Stimpy Show

The Ren & Stimpy Show, commonly referred to as simply Ren & Stimpy, is an American comedy animated television series created by John Kricfalusi, and developed by Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Smith and Lynne Naylor for Nickelodeon.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century-Fox.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Villain

A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction.

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