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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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, 1920-2015. (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, 1933-1978. (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: Video DVD
Language:English
Published:[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:Two-DVD special edition; widescreen.
Series:Criterion collection ; 541.
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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.
"The Night of the Hunter -- incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed -- is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, 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 and writer James Agee -- is cinema's most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil." -- Publisher.
Item Description:Publisher location from publisher website: The Criterion Collection, 215 Park Avenue South, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003.
From the novel by Davis Grubb.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Format:DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Awards:Named to the National Film Registry in 1992 by the Library of Congress.
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
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