The night of the hunter / UCLA Film & Television Archive ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Paul Gregory Productions ; screen play by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton ; United Artists.
Edition:
Widescreen edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
1955, 2010
Description:
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Making of The night of the hunter. Moving pictures. Charles Laughton directs The night of the hunter.
Notes:
Two-DVD special ed. 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. 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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