NIGHT OF THE HUNTER - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1955
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castillo, Corey Allen, Oscar Blank, Paul Bryar, Nora Bush, Cheryl Callaway, Alexander Campbell, Michael Chapin, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Mary Ellen Clemons, John Dennis, Roy Engel, Kathy Garver, Rudy Germane, James Griffith, John Hamilton, Joe Hinds, Edna Holland, Ann Kunde, Kay Lavelle, Thomas Martin, Frank Mills, King Mojave, Frances Morris, Gloria Pall, Jack Perry, Mike Ragan, Jean Ransome, Robert Robinson, Edwin Rochelle, Phil Schumacher, Lucile Sewall, Bert Spencer, James Stone, Charles Sullivan, George Wallace, Glen Walters, Charles Laughton, Davis Grubb, James Agee
• Director: Charles Laughton
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Media Format: Movie