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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schumann, Walter, 1913-1958 (Composer)
Corporate Authors: 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.
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511 1 |a Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo. 
508 |a 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. 
500 |a From the novel by Davis Grubb. 
500 |a Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955. 
521 8 |a Not rated. 
520 |a 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. 
505 0 |a Disc 1. The night of the hunter -- Disc 2. Charles Laughton directs The night of the Hunter. 
500 |a 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. 
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700 1 |a Winters, Shelley.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Gish, Lillian,  |d 1893-1993.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Gleason, James,  |d 1886-1959.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Varden, Evelyn,  |d 1893-1958.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Graves, Peter,  |d 1926-2010.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Beddoe, Don.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Chapin, Billy.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Bruce, Sally Jane.  |4 act 
700 1 |a Castillo, Gloria,  |d 1935-  |4 act 
700 1 |a Schumann, Walter,  |d 1913-1958.  |4 cmp 
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