The night of the hunter
(DVD Video)
Contributors
Agee, James, 1909-1955, screenwriter.
Beddoe, Don, actor.
Bos, Jerry, costume designer.
Brown, Hilyard, artistic director.
Bruce, Sally Jane, actor.
Beddoe, Don, actor.
Bos, Jerry, costume designer.
Brown, Hilyard, artistic director.
Bruce, Sally Jane, actor.
Published
[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2010.
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Status
Sedona Public Library - DVD - DVD Collection
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Published
[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2010.
Format
DVD Video
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.
Language
English
UPC
715515064613
Notes
General Note
From the novel by Davis Grubb.
General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
General Note
Publisher location from publisher website: The Criterion Collection, 215 Park Avenue South, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003.
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. "Holy 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.
Description
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.
Target Audience
Not rated.
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.
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Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sedona Public Library - DVD - DVD Collection | NIGHT | Find It Now |
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Public Library - AVDVD - A/V Room - DVD | NIGHT HUNTER | Find It Now |
| Prescott Public Library - PAV - DVD/Blu-ray Collection | NIGHT | Find It Now |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Drama.
Ex-convicts -- Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Film noir.
Grubb, Davis, -- 1919-1980 -- Film adaptations.
Impostors and imposture -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Night of the hunter (Motion picture)
Siblings -- Drama.
Stalkers -- Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Ex-convicts -- Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Film noir.
Grubb, Davis, -- 1919-1980 -- Film adaptations.
Impostors and imposture -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Night of the hunter (Motion picture)
Siblings -- Drama.
Stalkers -- Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Agee, J., Beddoe, D., Bos, J., Brown, H., Bruce, S. J., Castillo, G., Chapin, B., Cortez, S., DeWitt, L., Gish, L., Gleason, J., Golden, R. S., Graves, P., Gregory, P., Grubb, D., Laughton, C., Mitchum, R., Naughton, S., Rabin, J., Schumann, W., Spencer, A. E., Varden, E., & Winters, S. (2010). The night of the hunter (Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen.). Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)James Agee et al.. 2010. The Night of the Hunter. Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)James Agee et al.. The Night of the Hunter Criterion Collection, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Agee, James, et al. The Night of the Hunter Two-DVD special edition ; widescreen., Criterion Collection, 2010.
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