House by the River

NR 1950 | 85 mins | Thriller
Exiled to poverty-row Republic Pictures in 1949, Fritz Lang (M, METROPOLIS), the self-proclaimed "master of the unusual," created HOUSE BY THE RIVER, a shocking and mordant low-budget thriller. Victorian ne'er-do-well Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) assaults and murders his wife's virginal housekeeper. With the reluctant assistance of loyal brother John (Lee Bowman), Stephen remorselessly consigns the girl's corpse to the river. But as John's affection for Stephen's wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt), police suspicion about the girl's disappearance, and the depths of Stephen's depravity all escalate, the river itself provokes a horrifying reunion between victim and murderer.

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Cast


Louis Hayward
 
Jane Wyatt
 
Lee Bowman
 
Dorothy Patrick
 
Ann Shoemaker
 
Jody Gilbert
 
Peter Brocco
 
Howland Chamberlin
 
Margaret Seddon
 
Sarah Padden
 
Kathleen Freeman
 
Will Wright
 
Leslie Kimmell
 
Effie Laird
 

Crew


Fritz Lang
Director
Howard Welsch
Producer