The night of the hunter

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.

Main Author:	Schumann, Walter, 1913-1958. (Composer)
Corporate Author:	UCLA Film and Television Archive., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer., Paul Gregory Productions., United Artists Corporation., Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962. (Director), Agee, James, 1909-1955. (Screenwriter), Gregory, Paul, 1920- (Producer), Mitchum, Robert. (Actor), Winters, Shelley. (Actor), Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993. (Actor), Gleason, James, 1886-1959. (Actor), Varden, Evelyn, 1893-1958. (Actor), Graves, Peter, 1926-2010. (Actor), Beddoe, Don. (Actor), Chapin, Billy. (Actor), Bruce, Sally Jane. (Actor), Castillo, Gloria, 1935- (Actor), Cortez, Stanley. (Cinematographer), Brown, Hilyard. (Artistic director), Golden, Robert S. (Film editor), Spencer, Alfred E. (Set designer), Bos, Jerry. (Costume designer), Naughton, Stanford. (Sound designer), Rabin, Jack. (Photographer), DeWitt, Louis. (Photographer), Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980.
Format:	Videos DVD
Language:	English
Published:	[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2010.
Edition:	Two-DVD special ed.; widescreen.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 541.
Subjects:	Grubb, Davis, > 1919-1980 > Film adaptations. Night of the hunter (Motion picture) Stalkers > Drama. Brothers and sisters > Drama. Ex-convicts > Drama. Murder > Drama. Impostors and imposture > Drama. Feature films > United States. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Film adaptations. Film noir. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.