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The night of the hunter

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). Schumann, Walter, 1913-1958 (Composer). 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 Motion picture adaptation of (work): Night of the hunter. (Added Author). UCLA Film and Television Archive. (Added Author). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (Production company). Paul Gregory Productions. (Production company). United Artists Corporation. (Production company). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Film distributor). Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo. (Cast).

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.

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Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980 > Film adaptations.
Night of the hunter (Motion picture)
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Detective and mystery films.
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  • ISBN: 9781604653502
  • Physical Description 2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
  • Edition Two-DVD special edition.
  • Publisher [New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2010]

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General Note:
From the novel by Davis Grubb.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Digital restoration by UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Publisher location from publisher website: The Criterion Collection, 215 Park Avenue South, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003.
GMD: videodisc.
Formatted Contents Note:
Disc 1. Feature -- Special features: Commentary with second-unit director Terry Sanders, film archivist Robert Gitt, 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 Gitt and Leonard Maltin ; Booklet: 'Holy terror, ' essay by Terrence Rafferty -- 'Downriver and heavenward with James Agee, ' essay by Michael Sragow.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
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.
Participant or Performer Note:
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo.
Target Audience Note:
Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Language Note:
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Awards Note:
Named to the National Film Registry in 1992 by the Library of Congress.

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