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The Night of the Hunter - Criterion Collection (1955) NOW ACCEPTING ADVANCE ORDERS! |
| Starring: | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Billy Chapin, Cheryl Callaway, Corey Allen, Don Beddoe, George Wallace, Gloria Castillo, Gloria Pall, John Hamilton, Kathy Garver, Mary Ellen Clemons, Michael Chapin, Paul Bryar, Peter Graves, Sally Jane Bruce |
| Director: | Charles Laughton |
| Genre: | Drama, Horror, Film Noir, Mystery/Thriller |
| Year: | 1955 |
| Studio: | Criterion |
| Length: | 93 minutes |
| Release Date: | November 16, 2010 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a standalone 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 quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.
BONUS FEATURES:
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Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
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Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film
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New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
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New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
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Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film
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Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
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Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
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Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb
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New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter”
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Original theatrical trailer
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PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
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