The Red House (1947)

Delmer Daves, Edward G. Robinson, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts · 1947 · 100 min

Rural gothic rather than city noir — a farmer with a wooden leg who will not let anyone walk into the woods, a house in there that nobody will discuss, and a teenage boy who decides to find out why. Edward G. Robinson plays the guilt-rotted patriarch and Judith Anderson the sister holding the arrangement together. Miklós Rózsa's score reaches for a theremin. The dread here is agricultural and slow and it gets well under the skin.

Chosen print (2026-08-22): Archive.org item TheRedHouse — 3.52 GB MPEG-2 · 640×480 · 100.1 min ✓.

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Public domain in the United States by non-renewal. Published 1947 under the 1909 Act, which required a renewal registration in the 28th year; the scanned Catalog of Copyright Entries motion-picture volumes for 1974–76 contain no renewal of this film (checked 2026-08-17 against the Archive.org scans — method, matches and limits recorded in our verification notes). The check treats OCR absence as strong evidence corroborating the decades-long PD distribution consensus, not as sole proof; final sign-off re-reads the window at torrent-publish time.