The Night of the Hunter (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert Mitchum & Shelley Winters | |
| Performer: | Lillian Gish, Peter Graves, Evelyn Varden, Gloria Castillo, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, James Gleason & Sally Jane Bruce | |
| Directed by | Charles Laughton | |
| Edited by | Robert Golden | |
| Screenwriting by | James Agee | |
| Composition by | Walter Schumann | |
| Story by | David Grubb | |
| Produced by | Paul Gregory | |
| Director of Photography: | Stanley Cortez |
Entertainment Reviews:
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[I]t's so beautifully wrought and so unnerving that it practically qualifies as a full-scale directing career unto itself.
New York Times
There is a strong case to be made that this is the most original Hollywood film ever....Laughton's unique, haunted film achieved exactly what he had intended, provoking astonishment in everyone who saw it.
Empire
...A beaut -- an old-fashioned clash of good and evil with stark photography that pays homage to the silent era...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
It's overwrought and lurid; the story is grotesque and so are the characters. It's unlike anything else before and since. And that is why this strident psychological horror stands up now as one of the great pieces of American genre cinema.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 5/5 --
The only film directed by actor Charles Laughton, this haunting masterpiece is simply one of the best horrors ever made.
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Metro (UK)
...This noirish, dreamy chiller ripples between arthouse cine-poem and Hollywood suspenser with a fearful sophistication...
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
It is both Christian parable and folk tale, with its hymns, homilies, and orphans carried to safety by nature's benevolence; but it is also grounded in the social concerns of its makers.
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Product Description:
In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father's stolen fortune. In Robert Mitchum's career-defining role as Preacher Harry Powell, he wears unforgettable tattoos of two four-letter words on his fingers: LOVE and HATE. Hauntingly directed by Charles Laughton, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is his only credited directorial effort, and it is a tour-de-force.
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