Louis Hayward
Stephen Byrne
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House by the River: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt, Dorothy Patrick. A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.
House by the River is a 1950 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman and Jane Wyatt. It is based on the 1921 novel of the same title by A. P. Herbert.
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While his wife is away, Stephen Byrne—a wealthy, deranged, and failed writer—accidentally murders his maid after she resists his advances. He ropes his brother John into helping him hide the body and then does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling.
Louis Hayward stars as Stephen Byrne, a self-centered novelist who lives in the titular house with his wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt) and maid Emily (Dorothy Patrick), whom he murders “by accident” while attempting to rape her and then dumps her body in the river.
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
HOUSE BY THE RIVER. Crime, Drama. 85. MATURE. By 1949, Fritz Lang had been exiled to “poverty row”. Though stuck with a small budget and no stars, the noir master used the creative freedom to make one of the eeriest, most downright Lynchian thrillers of his storied career.
Exiled to poverty-row Republic Pictures in 1949, Fritz Lang (M, METROPOLIS), the self-proclaimed "master of the unusual," created HOUSE BY THE RIVER, a shocking and mordant low-budget thriller. Victorian ne'er-do-well Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) assaults and murders his wife's virginal housekeeper.
A wealthy, deranged writer accidentally murders a maid after she resists his advances. He ropes his brother into helping him hide the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect….
