The night of the hunter [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Paul Gregory Productions presents ; screen play by James Agee ; produced by Paul Gregory ; directed by Charles Laughton.
Contributor(s): Laughton, Charles | Mitchum, Robert | Winters, Shelley | Gish, Lillian
| Gleason, James | Grubb, Davis. Night of the hunter | Gregory, Paul | Paul Gregory Productions | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Criterion Collection (Firm).
Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs): 541Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, c2010Edition: DVD ed.Description: 2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.).ISBN: 9781604653502 (2 DVDs).Subject(s): Stalkers -- Drama | Ex-convicts -- Drama | Murder -- Drama | Impostors and imposture -- Drama | Feature filmsDDC classification: 791.4372 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 791.4372 NIG 2010 (Browse shelf) | Set of 2 DVDs + 1 booklet | 1 | Available | SLASx,05000,03,GR | 1000525224 |
Based on the novel by Davis Grubb.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Booklet (28 p.) contains essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
Widescreen ; aspect ratio 1.66:1; new, restored ditigal transfer
Cinematography, Stanley Cortez ; music, Walter Schumann ; editor, Robert Golden
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
A psychotic self-styled preacher marries and murders a young widow for her money. He then pursues her children to get his hands on the money, only to meet his match in the form of a saintly farm woman.
DVD ; uncompressed monaural sound