The night of the hunter
(DVD)
Contributors
Published
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2010.
Format
DVD
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. +
Status
Meadville Public Library
DVD NIG
1 available
DVD NIG
1 available
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Meadville Public Library | DVD NIG | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2010.
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
From the novel by Davis Grubb.
General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production 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.
Participants/Performers
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castilo.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen(1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Language
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Awards
National Film Registry, 1992.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Laughton, C., Mitchum, R., Winters, S., Gish, L., Gleason, J., Varden, E., Graves, P., Beddoe, D., & Grubb, D. (2010). The night of the hunter (Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.). The Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Charles Laughton et al.. 2010. The Night of the Hunter. The Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Charles Laughton et al.. The Night of the Hunter The Criterion Collection, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Laughton, Charles, et al. The Night of the Hunter Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen., The Criterion Collection, 2010.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
Staff View
Loading Staff View.
