The night of the hunter

DVD 2010

A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.

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Ex-convicts Fiction

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Murder Fiction

Siblings Fiction

Stalkers Fiction

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Feature films Fiction Thrillers (Motion pictures) Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 541 Criterion collection ; 541 DVD

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ISBN:

9781604653502
0792843363

Edition:

Two-DVD Special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (93 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital mono
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Night of the hunter (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Title from container
From the novel by Davis Grubb
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955
Special features: Disc 1. Commentary with second-unit director Terry Sanders, film archivist Robert Gill, film critic F.X. Feeney and author Preston Neal Jones. "The making of The night of the hunter" documentary; "Moving pictures" documentary; "Stanley Cortez" interview; "Simon Callow on Charles Laughton" interview; "The Ed Sullivan Show" excerpt from the September 25, 1955 episode; Davis Grubb sketches. Disc 2. "Charles Laughton directs The night of the hunter" a two and a half hour compilation of outtakes and behind the scenes footage; Introduction by Robert Gill and Leonard Maltin. Booklet. "Holly terror" essay by Terrence Rafferty; "Downriver and heavenward with James Agee" essay by Michael Sragow
Music by Walter Schumann ; photography by Stanley Cortez ; art direction by Hilyard Brown ; film editor, Robert Golden ; set decoration, Al Spencer ; wardrobe, Jerry Bos ; sound, Stanford Naughton ; special photographic effects, Jack Rabin, Louis DeWitt
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono
For private home use only
In English with English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Contents:

Disc 1. The night of the hunter (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

825275

UPC:

027616799425
715515064613

Other Authors:

Agee, James, 1909-1955, screenwriter
Bruce, Sally Jane, actor
Chapin, Billy, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, actor
Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015, film producer
Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980. Night of the hunter
Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962, film director
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company
Mitchum, Robert, actor
Paul Gregory Productions, production company
United Artists Corporation, production company
Winters, Shelley, actor

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