The Night of the Hunter BD - US Version
Release Date: Apr 08, 2014
The Night of the Hunter-incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed-is truly a stand-alone master-work. 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 actor Lillian Gish and writer James Agee is cinema's most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.
TWO-DISC BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
DISC ONE:
- Now, restored digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by second-unit director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones.
- New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Feeney, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
- New interview with Charles Laughton biographer Simon Callow
- Clip from The Ed Sullivan Show in which cast members perform a deleted scene
- Fifteen-minute archival documentary about the film, featuring actor Robert Mitchum
- Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
- Gallery of sketches by Davis Grubb, author of the source novel
- Trailer
DISC TWO:
- Charles Laughton Directs "The Night of the Hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour treasure trove of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage
- New conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs
PLIS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow
BLU-RAY EDITION
- 1955
- 93 MINUTES
- BLACK & WHITE
- MONAURAL
- 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO