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Bookmark this pageHouse by the River (1949)
Director: Fritz Lang
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of Fritz Lang's deathly constructs: a patently artificial period melodrama about an author (Hayward) who strangles his wife's maid and implicates his brother (Bowman) in the crime. It's a bleak, gloomy film, one in which the psychological undercurrents seem to be flooding over the banks, drowning any fleeting vestige of rationality in a perverse Teutonic romanticism.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Howard Welsch
Cast: Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Kathleen Freeman, Peter Brocco, Jody Gilbert full cast
Duration: 88 mins
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