The night of the hunter
(DVD) 

Special features: [disc one] audio commentary ; [disc two] Charles Laughton directs "The night of the hunter," a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film ; new documentary ; clip for the edition Sullivan show ; fifteen-minute episode of Moving pictures ; archival interview with Stanley Cortez ; gallery of sketches ; video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin ; original theatrical trailer ; booklet with essays by Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow.

Based on the novel by Davis Grubb.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1955 by United Artists.

Cinematography, Stanley Cortez ; music, Walter Schumann ; editor, Robert Golden.

Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Peter Graves, Evelyn Varden, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Gloria Castilo, Sally Jane Bruce.

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.

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC; widescreen, aspect ratio (1.66:1), monaural.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

National Film Registry, 1992.