'True Grit and its homage to Night of the Hunter

Movie critic/blogger Jim Emerson's "exploding heads" round-up post points out how how the Coen brothers's most recent film True Grit pays homage to Charles Laughton's only film, Night of the Hunter, both through its use of the hymn "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms," and in one of the film's most beautiful sequences, near the end:

Best homage to "Night of the Hunter": The snake-poisoned night ride on Little Blackie: "True Grit."

Here's that magical sequence from The Night of the Hunter that he has in mind: