Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
The night of the hunter [videorecording] / Paul Gregory Productions presents.
Edition:
DVD ed.
Publisher, Date:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2010.
Description:
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
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.
Target Audience Note:
Not rated.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 541.
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 541.
Subjects:
Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980 -- Film adaptations.
Stalkers -- Drama.
Brothers and sisters -- Drama.
Ex-convicts -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Impostors and imposture -- Drama.
Film noir.
Detective and mystery films.
Feature films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962.
Mitchum, Robert.
Winters, Shelley.
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
Agee, James, 1909-1955.
Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015
Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980. Night of the hunter.
Paul Gregory Productions.
United Artists Corporation.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Notes:
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Davis Grubb.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955 by United Artists.
Special features: Audio commentary ; Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film ; new documentary ; clip for the Ed Sullivan show ; fifteen-minute episode of Moving pictures ; archival interview with Stanley Cortez ; gallery of sketches ; video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin ; original theatrical trailer ; booklet with essays by Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow.
Screen play, James Agee ; music, Walter Schumann ; producer, Paul Gergory ; director, Charles Laughton.
Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Agee.
DVD; widescreen, aspect ratio (1.66:1), monaural.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Contents:
Disc 1. The night of the hunter -- Disc 2. Charles Laughton directs.
ISBN:
9786313849307
9781604653502
1604653507
Publisher or Distributor Number:
CC1956D
Other Number:
665161089
System Availability:
3
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
3
Control Number:
278384
Call Number:
DVD MOVIE Night of
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2
Medium:
[videorecording]