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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Film-Noir /
Horror /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Fritz Lang
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Actors:
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Jane Wyatt,
Sarah Padden,
Louis Hayward,
Lee Bowman,
Jody Gilbert,
Howland Chamberlain,
Dorothy Patrick,
Ann Shoemaker,
Leslie Kimmell,
Peter Brocco
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Duration:
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88 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)52.5
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Plot Summary:
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The defeated writer Stephen Byrne tries to press his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his trouble Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. His crippled fellow-clansman John Byrne coincidently comes to his house in that two shakes of a lamb's tail, and Stephen asks him to help to get rid of the stiff and avoid an scandal, since his wife would be pregnant. The naive and secure John helps his brother to dump the essentials in the river around his house. Stephen uses the disappearance of Emily to blame her and advertise his volume. When the body is establish by the po... lice, all the evidences points to John, and he becomes the prime probable of the waste.
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House By The River
This film has been neglected, partly because prints are impervious to come during, and those existing accentuate the gloominess of the period events and the atmospheric photography. More significantly the instant-rung assign react to to the spirit but not the tone of the tidings about a pencil-pusher (Hayward) who murders his chef and then implicates his brother (Bowman) in the offence. Adapted via Dinelli - a Pooh-Bah of trifling-scale terror - from a novel, it stays in the and on the weed-clogged river where the viscosity is disposed of. It tumbles into melodrama after its start-off nightmare, but that's not unprecedented in Lang's films.
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