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The night of the hunter [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2010.

Psychopaths -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 541.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (93 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Based on the novel by Davis Grubb.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.

Special features: Disc One: New, restored digital transfer ; audio commentary featuring second-unit director Terry Sanders, film critic F.X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gill, and author Preston Neal Jones ; new documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Feeney, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman ; new video interview with Laughton Biographer Simon Callow ; clip from The Ed Sullivan Show in which cast members perform a scene deleted from the film ; fifteen-minute archival documentary about the film, featuring Robert Mitchum ; archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez ; gallery of sketches by Davis Grubb, author of The source novel ; original theatrical trailer ; Disc Two: Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour treasure trove of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage ; new video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton directs ; PLUS: a booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow.

Screen format: Standard version. Theatrical release format.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 1992.

In black and white.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Paul Gregory Productions presents ; screenplay by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton.

Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters with Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, James Gleason and Peter Graves.

"The Night Of The Hunter - incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed - is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum (Cape Fear, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle) as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by ShelleyÂ Winters (A Place In The Sun, The Diary Of Anne Frank) are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic - also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish (Intolerance, Duel In The Sun) and writer James Agee - is cinema's quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil."--Container.

Psychological thriller films.

Thriller films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980. Night of the hunter.

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962.

Mitchum, Robert.

Winters, Shelley.

Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993

Graves, Peter, 1926-2010.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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