| Edition |
Widescreen ed. |
| Description |
2 DVD's (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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mono |
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Dolby |
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NTSC |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 541
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Criterion collection ; 541.
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| Note |
Publisher location from publisher website: The Criterion Collection, 215 Park Avenue South, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003. |
| System Details |
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono. |
| Cast |
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo. |
| Credits |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
From the novel by Davis Grubb. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Awards |
Named to the National Film Registry in 1992 by the Library of Congress. |
| Language |
In English; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
| Subject |
Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980 -- Film adaptations.
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Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980. |
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Film adaptations.
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Night of the hunter (Motion picture)
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Night of the hunter (Motion picture) |
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Stalkers -- Drama.
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Stalkers. |
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Drama.
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| Subject |
Siblings -- Drama.
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Siblings. |
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Ex-convicts -- Drama.
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Ex-convicts. |
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Murder -- Drama.
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Murder. |
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Impostors and imposture -- Drama.
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Impostors and imposture. |
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Night of the hunter (Motion picture) |
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Films for the hearing impaired.
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Detective and mystery films.
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Feature films -- United States.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Film noir.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Film adaptations.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962, director.
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Agee, James, 1909-1955, screenwriter.
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Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015, producer.
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Mitchum, Robert, actor.
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Winters, Shelley, actor.
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Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, actor.
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Gleason, James, 1886-1959, actor.
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Varden, Evelyn, 1893-1958, actor.
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Graves, Peter, 1926-2010, actor.
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Beddoe, Don, actor.
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Chapin, Billy, actor.
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Bruce, Sally Jane, actor.
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Castillo, Gloria, 1933-1978, actor.
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Schumann, Walter, 1913-1958, composer.
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Cortez, Stanley, cinematographer.
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Brown, Hilyard, artistic director.
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Golden, Robert S., film editor.
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Spencer, Alfred E., set designer.
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Bos, Jerry, costume designer.
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Naughton, Stanford, sound designer.
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Rabin, Jack, photographer.
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DeWitt, Louis, photographer.
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Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980.
Night of the hunter.
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UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Paul Gregory Productions.
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United Artists Corporation.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Making of The night of the hunter.
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Moving pictures.
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Charles Laughton directs The night of the hunter.
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| ISBN |
9781604653502 |
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1604653507 |
| Standard No. |
715515064613 |
| Music No. |
CC1956D The Criterion Collection |
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