The Night Of The Hunter (Criterion Collection)

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	Robert Mitchum	Harry Powell
	Shelley Winters	Willa Harper
	Lillian Gish	Rachel Cooper
	James Gleason	Uncle Birdie Steptoe
	Evelyn Varden	Icey Spoon
	Peter Graves	Ben Harper
	Don Beddoe	Walt Spoon
	Billy Chapin	John Harper
	Sally Jane Bruce	Pearl Harper
	Gloria Castillo	Ruby
	Corey Allen	Young Man in Town
	Oscar Blank	Townsman
	Paul Bryar	Bart the Hangman
	Nora Bush	Townswoman
	Cheryl Callaway	Mary
	Alexander Campbell	Judge
	Michael Chapin	Ruby's Boyfriend
	Noble 'Kid' Chissell	Townsman
	Mary Ellen Clemons	Clary
	John Dennis	Prison Guard
	Roy Engel	Sheriff
	Kathy Garver	Child
	Rudy Germane	Townsman
	James Griffith	District Attorney
	John Hamilton	Townsman Who Greets Rachel

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Director	Charles Laughton
Writer	Davis Grubb, James Agee, Charles Laughton
Producer	Paul Gregory
Musician	Walter Schumann
Photography	Stanley Cortez

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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.


The Night of the Hunter was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., with funding provided by Robert Sturm and The Film Foundation.


SPECIAL FEATURES
New digital transfer made from 35 mm film elements restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with MGM Studios, with funding provided by the Film Foundation and Robert Sturm, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary featuring second-unit director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour treasure trove of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage
New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Feeney, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
New video interview with Laughton biographer Simon Callow
Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show in which cast members perform a scene deleted from the film
Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb, author of the source novel
New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs
Original theatrical trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: New essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
New cover by Eric Skillman

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