But just as I made my way around the pole nearest to her seat, she looked up at me, jumped up like Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and ran off the car.
Film noir is the genre that perhaps most clearly bears the traces of Weimar cinema, and MoMA has selected two of the genre's finest representatives for screening, Welles's "The Stranger" (1946) and Charles Laughton's "Night of the Hunter" (1955).