House by the River

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. By House by the River's climax, "melodrama is transformed into a work of art and a moral nightmare" (Lang biographer Lotte Eisner).

Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Howard Welsch
Actor: Louis Hayward
Actor: Jane Wyatt
Actor: Lee Bowman
Actor: Dorothy Patrick
Actor: Ann Shoemaker
Actor: Howland Chamberlin
Actor: George Taylor
Actor: Howland Chamberlain
Actor: Jo Gilbert
Actor: Leslie Kimmell
Actor: Peter Brocco
Actor: Margaret Seddon
Actor: Sarah Padden
Actor: Kathleen Freeman
Actor: Will Wright
Actor: Effie Laird
Actor: Alex Gerry
Actor: Watson Downs
Actor: Frank Dae
Actor: Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Actor: William Fawcett
Actor: Edythe Elliott
Actor: Frank Jacquet
Actor: Edward Clark