The Night of the Hunter (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)

The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 16, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1955
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 24,632
[I]t's so beautifully wrought and so unnerving that it practically qualifies as a full-scale directing career unto itself.
New York Times
Sep 8, 2010
[T]he greatest directorial one-off in cinema history....Its elemental power comes from its grasp of the conflicts and obsessions that give America its character... -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
Dec 1, 2010
It's a hard world for a little thing. Full Review
Boulder Weekly
Jun 22, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- It's overwrought and lurid; the story is grotesque and so are the characters. It's unlike anything else before and since. And that is why this strident psychological horror stands up now as one of the great pieces of American genre cinema. Full Review
Times (UK)
Oct 5, 2015
There is a strong case to be made that this is the most original Hollywood film ever....Laughton's unique, haunted film achieved exactly what he had intended, provoking astonishment in everyone who saw it.
Empire
Sep 1, 2008
...This noirish, dreamy chiller ripples between arthouse cine-poem and Hollywood suspenser with a fearful sophistication...
Total Film
Dec 1, 2003
Few [films] reach the level of magnificence and genius as the suspenseful, alternately lyrical and visually jarring American gothic creepfest, The Night of the Hunter. Full Review
Cinema Siren
Jul 24, 2019

Product Description:

In this eerie meditation on good and evil, a schizophrenic preacher--possibly the devil himself--relentlessly hunts two small children across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead father's stolen fortune. In Robert Mitchum's career-defining role as Preacher Harry Powell, he wears unforgettable tattoos of two four-letter words on his fingers: LOVE and HATE. Hauntingly directed by Charles Laughton, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is his only credited directorial effort, and it is a tour-de-force.

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  • Sales Rank: 39,181
  • UPC: 715515064613
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