The night of the hunter / Paul Gregory Productions presents; screen play by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton ; United Artists.
Edition:
Two-disc Blu-ray special edition; widescreen.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2014
Description:
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. From the novel by Davis Grubb. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo.
Contents:
Disc 1. The night of the hunter -- Disc 2. Charles Laughton directs The night of the Hunter.
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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