Film, Video Web Page The night of the hunter

Title

• The night of the hunter

Summary

• A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.

Names

• Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962, direction
• Gregory, Paul, 1920-2015, production
• Agee, James, 1909-1955, writing
• Mitchum, Robert, cast
• Winters, Shelley, cast
• Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, cast
• Gleason, James, 1886-1959, cast
• Varden, Evelyn, 1893-1958, cast
• Graves, Peter, 1911-1994, cast
• Grubb, Davis, 1919-1980
• Paul Gregory Productions
• United Artists Corporation
• Voyager Company
• MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)
• LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
• Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
• AFI Theatre Collection (Library of Congress)
• MGM Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• United States : United Artists, 1955 ; United States : The Voyager Company ; MGM/UA Home Video, [1987]

Headings

• -  Good and evil--Drama
• -  Psychopaths--Drama
• -  Siblings--Drama
• -  Murder--Drama

Genre

• Film noir--Feature
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Videodiscs

Notes

• -  LP5150 RE169-232 U.S. Copyright Office
• -  Copyright: Paul Gregory Productions, a limited California partnership, consisting of Gregory Associates, Inc., a California corp., as the general partner, & Paul Gregory & Robert Mitchum, individually, as the limited partners; ; 27Jul55; LP5150. Renewal: United Artists Corporation; 27May83; RE169-232.
• -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: The Criterion Collection ; 1987.
• -  Photography, Stanley Cortez ; music, Walter Schulmann ; film editor, Robert Golden.
• -  Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves.
• -  Summary from M/B/RS preliminary catalog card.
• -  Collection name refers to videodisc only.
• -  MAVIS 1162547; Night of the hunter.
• -  On disc jacket: cat. no. CC1128L; a joint venture of Janus Films and Voyager Press.
• -  Based on the novel Night of the hunter by Davis Grubb.
• -  Theatrical projection print was acquired for LC's National Film Preservation Tour, featuring titles from the National Film Registry.
• -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  Not viewed.
• -  Sources used: videodisc jacket; Internet movie database; Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1950-1959.
• -  Received: 5-26-1993; videodisc viewing copy; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
• -  Received: 2-13-1992 from LC video lab; 3/4 in. viewing copy and master; preservation; Copyright Collection.
• -  Received: 11-29-1956; non-viewing print; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.
• -  Received: 3-8-2007; viewing print; gift; AFI Theatre Collection.
• -  Received: 7-3-1995; theatrical projection print; gift; MGM Collection.

Medium

• 1 videodisc of 1 (optical) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copy.
• 2 videocassettes of 2 (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in. viewing copy.
• 2 videoreels of 2 (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1 in. master.
• 10 film reels of 10 (ca. 92 min., ca. 8,280 ft.,) : sd., b&w, 35 mm. non-viewing print.
• 10 film reels of 10 on 5 (ca. 92 min., ca. 8,280 ft.,) : sd., b&w, 35 mm. viewing print.
• 10 film reels of 10 (ca. 92 min., ca. 8,280 ft.,) : sd., b&w, 35 mm. theatrical projection print.

Call Number/Physical Location

• DAA 2132 (viewing copy)
• VBI 4963-4964 (viewing copy)
• VTA 7600-7601 (master)
• FGA 8057-8066 (non-viewing print)
• FGF 2205-2209 (viewing print)
• FQC 3546-3550 (theatrical projection print)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 96519343

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/96519343

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