“The night before your father died, he told me what he did with that...” – Powell, The Night of the Hunter ... Movie Quotes Database

Powell

The night before your father died, he told me what he did with that money. That money's at the bottom of the river, wrapped around a twelve-pound cobblestone.

Willa

I feel clean now. My whole body's just a-quivering with cleanness.

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