The Night of the Hunter - The Criterion Collection

The Night of the Hunter-incredibly, the only film the great actor CHARLES LAUGHTON ever directed- is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister ROBERT MITCHUM (Cape Fear, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by SHELLEY WINTERS (A Place in the Sun, The Diary of Anne Frank) are uncovered by her terrified young children.Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humour, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic-also featuring the contributions of actress LILLIAN GISH (Intolerance, Duel in the Sun) and writer JAMES AGEE-is cinema's quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.Special Features:New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAudio commentary featuring assistant 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 archival treasure trove of outtakes from the filmNew documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey CouchmanNew video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult ActorClip from The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the filmFifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the filmArchival interview with cinematographer Stanley CortezGallery of sketches by author Davis GrubbNew video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter Original theatrical trailerPLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow