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The Night Of The Hunter (Blu-Ray)

Barcode: 050629520330
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Country: USA
Studio: Criterion UK
Year: 1955
Screen ratio: Widescreen

Director: Charles Laughton

Blu-Ray, 1955

349 SEK

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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.

Special features:
– New digital transfer restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive
– Audio commentary
– Over two hours of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage
– New video interview with Laughton biographer Simon Callow
– Archival interviews with cast and crew
– New documentary on the film
– And more