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House By The River
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Victorian ne'er-do-well Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) assauIts and murders his wife's virginal housekeeper. With the reluctant assistance of Ioyal brother John (Lee Bowman), Stephen remorselessIy consigns the girI's corpse to the river. But as John's affection for Stephen's wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt), poIice suspicion about the girl's disappearance, and the depths of Stephen's depravity aIl escaIate, the river itseIf provokes a horrifying reunion between victim and murderer. By House by the River's cIimax, "meIodrama is transformed into a work of art and a moraI nightmare" (Lang biographer Lotte Eisner). |
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