House by the River (1. Plot: A rich novelist, Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, kills his attractive maid after she begins screaming following a drunken pass. The writer, with the help of his limping brother, loads the body into an old sack and the pair throws the body into the river. Unfortunately, the body comes back up and floats by the house days later. Despite desperate attempts by the brothers to get the body, the police end up recovering it. Byrne, who uses the woman's disappearance and killing for publicity for his books, realizes that his brother is the one who is going to be accused of the crime. Meanwhile, he begins writing a book about the crime in another attempt to cash in on the scandal.
His wife and brother begin to fall in love, despite the fact that he has become the prime suspect.
Stay current. Watch the latest full episodes of AMC shows. Watch the latest full episodes. The latest critic and user reviews, photos and cast info for House By the River. Straddling the line between eerie and erotic, the suspenseful sequence's success derives not only from it's masterfully angled and nearly expressionistic shots, and. 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.
House by the River is a 1950 Crime, Drama film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt.
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