Title from container. Based on the novel by Davis Grubb. Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Agee. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955 by United Artists. Special features: Audio commentary ; Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film ; new documentary ; clip for the Ed Sullivan show ; fifteen-minute episode of Moving pictures ; archival interview with Stanley Cortez ; gallery of sketches ; video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin ; original theatrical trailer ; booklet with essays by Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow.
Contents:
Disc 1. The night of the hunter -- Disc 2. Charles Laughton directs.
Summary:
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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