The night of the hunter
2010
DVD
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.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781604653502
- 0792843363
Edition: Two-DVD Special edition.
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (93 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital mono
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: Night of the hunter (Motion picture) [DVD].
Notes:
- Title from container.
- From the novel by Davis Grubb.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
- 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. "Holly terror" essay by Terrence Rafferty; "Downriver and heavenward with James Agee" essay by Michael Sragow.
- 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.
- Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo.
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
- For private home use only.
- In English with English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Contents:
- Disc 1. The night of the hunter (DVD).
- Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD).
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC1956D
Control Number: 825275
UPC:
- 715515064613
- 027616799425
Series:
Subjects:
- Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
- Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
- Murder -- Fiction.
- Siblings -- Fiction.
- Stalkers -- Fiction.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Agee, James, 1909-1955, screenwriter.
- Bruce, Sally Jane, actor.
- Chapin, Billy, actor.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, actor.
- Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015, film producer.
- Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980. Night of the hunter.
- Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962, film director.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.
- Mitchum, Robert, actor.
- Paul Gregory Productions, production company.
- United Artists Corporation, production company.
- Winters, Shelley, actor.