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The Night of the Hunter
1955, 
93 minuten, 
Verenigde Staten
Horrorfilm, Thriller, Psycho, Cult, Klassiekers 


User Rating: 8.2/10   23,111 votes
Imdb Top 250: #171

Een tweetal kinderen hebben een buit van tienduizend dollar verborgen voor hun vader, en beloofd te zullen zwijgen als het graf. Na zijn terechtstelling en de moord op hun moeder worden ze belaagd door een psyschopatische moordenaar (Mitchum) die achter het geld aanzit. Een klassiek geworden horrorfilm en Laughtons enige film als regisseur; merkwaardig en fascinerend. Gesitueerd tijdens de Depressie van 1930-1940. Scenario van James Agee en Charles Laughton naar de gelijknamige roman van Davis Grubb. Camerawerk van Stanley Cortez. In 1991 opnieuw gefilmd als tv- film met Richard Chamberlain in Mitchum's rol. 


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Studio: MGM Video

DVD Release Date: January 25, 2000


Director: Charles Laughton


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In the entire history of American movies, The Night of the Hunter stands out as the rarest and most exotic of specimens. It is, to say the least, a masterpiece--and not just because it was the only movie directed by flamboyant actor Charles Laughton or the only produced solo screenplay by the legendary critic James Agee (who also cowrote The African Queen).

The truth is, nobody has ever made anything approaching its phantasmagoric, overheated style in which German expressionism, religious hysteria, fairy-tale fantasy (of the Grimm-est variety), and stalker movie are brought together in a furious boil. Like a nightmarish premonition of stalker movies to come, Night of the Hunter tells the suspenseful tale of a demented preacher (Robert Mitchum, in a performance that prefigures his memorable villain in Cape Fear), who torments a boy and his little sister--even marries their mixed-up mother (Shelley Winters)--because he's certain the kids know where their late bank-robber father hid a stash of stolen money.

So dramatic, primal, and unforgettable are its images--the preacher's shadow looming over the children in their bedroom, the magical boat ride down a river whose banks teem with fantastic wildlife, those tattoos of LOVE and HATE on the unholy man's knuckles, the golden locks of a drowned woman waving in the current along with the indigenous plant life in her watery grave--that they're still haunting audiences (and filmmakers) today.


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 5.17 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 89 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): English | French | German | Italian | Spanish

Subtitles: optional English | French | German | Italian | Spanish | Dutch | Swedish | Finnish | Norwegian | Danish | English HoH | German HoH


DISC FEATURES:

# Original theatrical trailer.


Gespot in: a.b.dvd.classics