The night of the hunter

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
Stalkers > Drama.
Siblings > Drama.
Ex-convicts > Drama.
Murder > Drama.
Impostors and imposture > Drama.
Film noir.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[United States] : The Criterion Collection 2010.
Language
English
Corporate Author
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Corporate Author
UCLA Film and Television Archive (-)
Other Authors
Charles Laughton, 1899-1962 (-), James Agee, 1909-1955, Walter Schumann, Davis Grubb, 1919-1980
Edition
Two-DVD special edition; 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 edition 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.) : sound, black and white ; 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
9781604653502
  • Disc 1. The night of the hunter
  • Disc 2. Charles Laughton directs The night of the Hunter.
Review by Library Journal Review

Perhaps most widely known for his tragic depiction of the deformed bell ringer Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Laughton ventured behind the camera just once for this 1955 box-office failure, which has gained immeasurable stature since its unheralded release. Robert Mitchum is bone-chilling as the psychopathic "preacher" who marries a small-town widow (Shelley Winters) strictly to uncover a stash of money known only to her two children. With its expressionistic style, Night mingles elements of an eerie thriller with a lyrical fable of childhood resolve. A bounty of extras, including documentaries, new and archival interviews, audio commentary, essays, and more, affirm the film's classic status. Beautifully restored, this Night is one to remember.-Jeff T. Dick, Davenport, IA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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