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Nov 23, 2010 · <I>The Night of the Hunter</I>—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 ...
Licensor. MGM Home Entertainment. Directed by: Charles Laughton. Featuring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves. A tall, handsome “preacher”—his knuckles eerily tattooed with “love” and “hate”—roams the countryside, spreading the gospel…and leaving a trail of murdered women ...
Audio commentary featuring second-unit 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 treasure trove of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Terry Sanders, F. X. Feeney, Preston Neal Jones, and ...
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Jun 28, 2005 · The Night of the Hunter #1 Post by antnield » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:08 am This visually ravishing, authentically terrifying Southern Gothic masterpiece is one of the cinema's great one-offs, not just because it was the only film directed by the actor Charles Laughton.
Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour treasure trove of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage; New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Terry Sanders, F. X. Feeney, Preston Neal Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman; New video interview with Laughton biographer Simon Callow
Nov 16, 2010 · Directed by: Charles Laughton. Featuring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves. 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 ...
Jul 6, 2022 · Extras 7/10. Television films, as pointed out a couple of times through the features found here, were made with only one airing in mind, doomed to be mostly forgotten. Impressively this one has managed to stir up a bit of a following (and a remake in 2006) and Arrow keeps its fans in mind with this edition.
Directed by: Jean Rollin. Featuring: Brigitte Lahaie, Alain Duclos, Dominique Journet, Bernard Papineau. One of Jean Rollin’s least-seen and most underrated works, The Night of the Hunted (La Nuit des traquées) finds the director moving away from his trademark tales of vampirism to explore a nightmarish, dystopian world.
Jun 17, 2011 · In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane’s novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Ralph Meeker stars as snarling private dick Mike Hammer, whose decision one dark, lonely night to pick up a hitchhiking woman sends him down some terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, <I>Kiss Me Deadly</I> is a film noir masterwork as well as an essential ...
Sep 18, 2017 · Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, The Big Knife also boasts a remarkable cast list including Jack Palance (Shane) as Castle and Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront) as Hoff, plus Shelley Winters (The Night of the Hunter), Ida Lupino (On Dangerous Ground), Jean Hagen (Singin' in the Rain) and Everett Sloane (Citizen Kane).
