[US] The Night of the Hunter (1955) Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] Release Details

1. Second-Unit Director Terry Sanders, Film Archivist Robert Gitt, Film Critic F.X. Feeney, Author Preston Neal Jones

In this excerpt from the September 25, 1955 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, Peter Graves and Shelley Winters perform a scene not included in the film: a visit from Willa Harper to Ben Harper in prison.

In this 1984 interview, shot at the American Society of Cinematographers, director of photography Stanley Cortez talks about filming The Night of the Hunter.

This documentary traces the history of The Night of the Hunter, from Charles Laughton's discovery of the Davis Grubb novel to the film's poor reception in 1955 and later ascension into the pantheon of classic films. It features producer Paul Gregory, second-unit director Terry Sanders, and authors Preston Neal Jones, F.X. Feeney, and Jeffrey Couchman.

This fifteen-minute documentary on The Night of the Hunter, originally broadcast on February 19, 1995, features interviews with producer Paul Gregory, stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish, editor Robert Golden, art director Hilyard Brown, director of photography Stanley Cortez, and second-unit director Terry Sanders.

In this exclusive interview, shot in 2010 in London, Simon Callow, the author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor, discusses Laughton's career and the effect that his lone foray into film directing had on his life.

In this conversation, recorded exclusively for the Criterion Collection in 2010, film archivist Robert Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin discuss the discovery and preservation of the material used to make Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter.