DESCRIPTION:
Scenes from the movie 'The Night of the Hunter.'

This is a higher quality remake of a video I posted a few years ago (that earlier version had 42,655 views as of this posting). It contains four parts from John and Pearl's river journey; it leaves out the parts that do not have what I call the river music/children's music (that is, it leaves out almost all the Harry Powell/Robert Mitchum music--the darker stuff).

In the 'old' days, when we just had VHS videotapes from Blockbuster, I used to rent 'The Night of the Hunter' occasionally just to watch the part where Pearl sings 'Once Upon a Time There Was a Pretty Fly.' This video begins with that part.

IMDB.com, of course, has more information about the movie and the soundtrack.

IMDB.com has this about Pearl's song:
"Once Upon a Time There Was a Pretty Fly (Lullaby)"
(1955) (uncredited)
Music by Walter Schumann
Lyrics by Davis Grubb
Sung by Sally Jane Bruce (dubbed by Kitty White)

The lyrics:
Once upon a time there was a pretty fly.
He had a pretty wife, this pretty fly,
But one day she flew away, flew away.
She had two pretty children,
But one night these two pretty children flew away, flew away,
Into the sky,
Into the moon.

Animal Bits
0:57 spider web (John and Pearl are leaving the foreground web as Pearl sings an 'ominous' lullaby of the pretty fly who had a pretty wife; perhaps John and Pearl are like two pretty fly children leaving the Harry Powell spider web)
1:11 toad (the 'land' version of a frog), sound of toad
2:16 owl
2:18 tortoise (the 'land' version of a turtle)
2:39 two rabbits
3:02 flock of sheep, sound of sheep
3:24 one sheep, sound of sheep
4:19 silhouette of bird in cage -- medium shot (while pretty lullaby is sung)
4:26 silhouette of bird in cage -- close up
4:54 four cows
5:41 sound of whippoorwill, then dog barking
6:02 dog barking
7:03 the moon -- not an animal bit, but the fly children Pearl sung about flew into the moon
7:23 sound of fox barking, then seen in a tree
7:33 sound of fox barking, then seen as it turns and leaves
7:50 cricket/insect night noises
8:42 rooster crows as we see heavenly clouds -- a new day has dawned