House by to rivet

House by the River is a Black film carried out by Fritz Lang, left in 1950.

Synopsis

Stephen Byrne is a rich person novelist who saw and works close to a river. After an argument, it kills his pretty chambermaid. The writer, with the assistance his brother lame, dissimulates the body in a bag which they throw in the river. But the body returns and floats close to the house. In spite of the efforts of the two brothers to recover the body, the police force seizes some before them. The writer, using the drama for his own publicity, realizes that only his/her brother will be marked murder. During this time, he undertakes the drafting of a book on the crime for cen to still draw benefit. His wife and her brother fall in love then, in spite of the charge of which it is the object…

Critical reception

Criticisms of the time were mitigated. But modern criticism, revaluing the importance of the Black film, granted a greater interest to him. Richard Brody wrote in 2005 for The New Yorker: " Each detail of this film, since the plans of opening close to the river and the wind in the trees has a moral resonance. Stephen promises to change, but at the time when he lascivement listens to the water run-off of the bath of Emily in the pipes, its tragic exit is already predicted - and the natural elements, the wind and water, are the ultimate agents of sound châtiment."

Distribution

Louis Hayward: Stephen Byrne
Jane Wyatt : Marjorie Byrne
Lee Bowman : John Byrne
Dorothy Patrick: Emily Gaunt
Ann Shoemaker : Mrs. Ambrose
Jody Gilbert: Miss Bantam
Sarah Padden: Mrs. Beach

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