Advantages: Laughton and Mitchum deliver the goods Disadvantages: Spartan DVD release
'Night of the Hunter' pulls no punches in showing the corruption of men, and provides us with one of the most menacing screen heavies of all time, Robert Mitchum's study in terror, the 'Rev Harry Powell'.
This 1955 masterpiece, the only directorial outing by Charles Laughton, has taken a very long time to accumulate the praise it deserves, and upon release the press made 'Harry Powell' seem like a positive angel.
A highly regarded stage and screen ... ...both Britain and America when late in his career he decided to adapt Davis Grubb's novel of 'Night of the Hunter'. Mitchum was brought swiftly onto the project, and his biography recounts the troubled pre-production period of 'Night of the Hunter'. Scripts came and went, and after throwing out James Agee's screenplay (which the film still credits), Laughton set about rewriting the script.
A classic story of good and evil, two angelic children are ...
dadmancat 16.05.2004
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Advantages: you might get to watch a great film Disadvantages: another old film
...become classics. The film The Night of the Hunter belongs to the second, which is recognized now as the classic it is. More about the film later on, but the DVD is part of the move time release, and cost between £5 and £ 8 depending on where you buy the disc.
So what do you get for your money, apart from the film? To be honest not a great deal, the extras are different soundtracks, all mono, subtitles and hard of hearing feature. You also get the ... ...I did not expect much more. The front of the disc is very striking will a picture of Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell with the words hate on this hand, and lit very darkly, giving a very menacing feel to the picture. The film is shot in black and white and around 1hr 20 minutes long, and rated 12.
The film.
When the film was released in 1955, by Metro Goldwyn Mayer; and was directed by Charles Laughton, and was based on the novel by Davis Grubb. ...
oldgoth 01.06.2004
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Production Year: 2000 - Drama - Director: Giuseppe Tornatore - Original Language: Italian - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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