Description

• New digital transfer made from 35 mm film elements restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with MGM Studios, with funding provided by the Film Foundation and Robert Sturm, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring second-unit director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones
• Charles Laughton Directs “The Night of the Hunter,” a two-and-a-half-hour treasure trove of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage
• New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Feeney, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman
• New video interview with Laughton biographer Simon Callow
• Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show in which cast members perform a scene deleted from the film
• Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film
• Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez
• Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb, author of the source novel
• New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs
• Original theatrical trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: New essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow