Title from sell sheet. Based on the novel by Davis Grubb. Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Special features: audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F.X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones; Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film; new documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Feeney, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman; new video interview with Simon Callow, author of Chales Laughton: a difficult actor; clip from the Ed Sullivan show; 15 min. episode of the BBC show, Moving pictures, about the film; archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez; gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb; new video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter"; original theatrical trailer. Booklet includes essay by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow. James Gleason, Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters.
Summary:
A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money.
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