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.
| 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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| Item Description: |
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. "Holy terror" essay by Terrence Rafferty; "Downriver and heavenward with James Agee" essay by Michael Sragow. |
| Physical Description: |
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) |
| Format: |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen(1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono. |
| Audience: |
Not rated. |
| Awards: |
National Film Registry, 1992. |
| Production Credits: |
Music by Walter Schumann ; photography by Stanley Cortez ; art direction by Hilyard Brown ; film editor, Robert Golden ; set decoration, Al Spencer ; wardrobe, Jerry Bos ; sound, Stanford Naughton ; special photographic effects, Jack Rabin, Louis DeWitt. |
| ISBN: |
9781604653502 1604653507 |