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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- Subjects
- Genres
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection
2010.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special ed.; widescreen
- Item Description
- 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. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (DVD)(93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen(1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Awards
- National Film Registry, 1992.
- Production Credits
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9786313849307
9781604653502
- Disc 1. The night of the hunter
- Disc 2. Charles Laughton directs The night of the Hunter.