The night of the hunter, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Paul Gregory Productions ; screen play by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton ; United Artists
Type
Label
The night of the hunter, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Paul Gregory Productions ; screen play by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton ; United Artists
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
The night of the hunter
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
665161089
Responsibility statement
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Paul Gregory Productions ; screen play by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton ; United Artists
Runtime
93
Series statement
Criterion collection, 541
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
Table Of Contents
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
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Paul Gregory Productions
- Agee, James, 1909-1955
- Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015
- Varden, Evelyn, 1893-1958
- Beddoe, Don
- Cortez, Stanley
- Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980
- Gleason, James, 1886-1959
- Rabin, Jack
- Bruce, Sally Jane
- Chapin, Billy
- Brown, Hilyard
- Graves, Peter, 1926-2010
- Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962
- UCLA Film and Television Archive
- Naughton, Stanford
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Spencer, Alfred E
- Schumann, Walter, 1913-1958
- Winters, Shelley
- Castillo, Gloria, 1933-1978
- Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
- Bos, Jerry
- DeWitt, Louis
- United Artists Corporation
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Mitchum, Robert
- Golden, Robert S
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Subject
- Impostors and imposture -- Drama
- Siblings -- Drama
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films -- United States
- Feature films
- Stalkers -- Drama
- Detective and mystery films
- Fiction films
- Murder -- Drama
- Night of the hunter (Motion picture)
- Film noir
- Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980 -- Film adaptations
- Ex-convicts -- Drama
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- Agee, James, 1909-1955
- Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015
- Varden, Evelyn, 1893-1958
- Beddoe, Don
- Cortez, Stanley
- Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980
- Gleason, James, 1886-1959
- Rabin, Jack
- Bruce, Sally Jane
- Chapin, Billy
- Brown, Hilyard
- Graves, Peter, 1926-2010
- Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962
- UCLA Film and Television Archive
- Naughton, Stanford
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Spencer, Alfred E
- Schumann, Walter, 1913-1958
- Winters, Shelley
- Castillo, Gloria, 1933-1978
- Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
- Bos, Jerry
- DeWitt, Louis
- United Artists Corporation
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Mitchum, Robert
- Golden, Robert S
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- Impostors and imposture -- Drama
- Siblings -- Drama
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films -- United States
- Feature films
- Stalkers -- Drama
- Detective and mystery films
- Fiction films
- Murder -- Drama
- Night of the hunter (Motion picture)
- Film noir
- Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980 -- Film adaptations
- Ex-convicts -- Drama
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