CHARLES LAUGHTON’S LATE BOUNTY

“Except for The Night of the Hunter, Mr. Laughton’s post-Galileo career is no longer widely remembered save by scholars. But enough of it survives on sound recordings and kinescopes to prove that F. Scott Fitzgerald was all wet when he claimed that ‘there are no second acts in American lives.’ Charles Laughton, who moved from England to America to seek fame and fortune and came perilously close to losing his soul along the way, had a second act that redeemed all that came before it…”