Louis Hayward

The Strange Woman -- Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor...

The Strange Woman -- A woman in a coastal town in Maine uses her beauty to get what she wants. When her drunken father dies she improves her situation and marries a man with money; but does not change her ways

Throughout the West, one name means action: Chuka! Rod Taylor straps on his six-gun in this heroic, hard-hitting western about Chuka, a man of war who's seen enough fighting to know he must keep the brushfires of hatred and violence from erupting again. Acclaimed actors Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, James Whitmore and Louis Hayward join Taylor in this taut tale that emphasizes strong characterizations and meaningful action. Tension builds for soldiers guarding a besieged prairie fort against Indian attacks. Their nerves are frayed and their spirits are dying. But there's a glimmer of hope: the lone gunfighter who's come to help them is the man called Chuka!

Throughout the West, one name means action: Chuka! Tension builds for soldiers guarding a besieged prairie fort against Indian attacks. Their nerves are frayed and their spirits are dying. But there's a glimmer of hope: the lone gunfighter who's come to help them is the man called Chuka! Rod Taylor straps on his six-gun in this heroic, hard-hitting western about Chuka, a man of war who's seen enough fighting to know he must keep the brushfires of hatred and violence from erupting again. Acclaimed actors Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, James Whitmore and Louis Hayward join Taylor in this taut tale that emphasizes strong characterizations and meaningful action.

The mystery of Bridey Murphy begins when psychological researcher Morey Bernstein (Louis Hayward) puts a woman named Ruth Simmons (Teresa Wright) into hypnotic regression, and she vividly relates a past life in Ireland that began 150 years earlier. Once her authentic-seeming recollections are recorded, researchers try to establish whether Bridey Murphy really did exist in the time and places described by Simmons.

Snubbed by the family maid, writer Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) kills her and dumps her body in the river. The unhinged Byrne later tries to profit from his crime, penning a book about the servant's disappearance and attempting to frame his brother (Lee Bowman) for the murder. But time has a way of revealing the darkest secrets, as the arrogant scribe soon discovers in director Fritz Lang's gothic melodrama.

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. With the reluctant assistance of loyal brother John (Lee Bowman), Stephen remorselessly consigns the girl's corpse to the river. But as John's affection for Stephen's wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt), police suspicion about the girl's disappearance, and the depths of Stephen's depravity all escalate, the river itself provokes a horrifying reunion between victim and murderer.

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. With the reluctant assistance of loyal brother John (Lee Bowman), Stephen remorselessly consigns the girl's corpse to the river. But as John's affection for Stephen's wife Marjorie (Jane Wyatt), police suspicion about the girl's disappearance, and the depths of Stephen's depravity all escalate, the river itself provokes a horrifying reunion between victim and murderer.

A deranged writer, Stephen Byrne, murders a maid after she resists his advances. He then enlists his brother's help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.

Coldhearted and conniving financier Horace Vendig (Zachary Scott), who's built up a false reputation as a respectable philanthropist, will stop at absolutely nothing to acquire more money, even if it means ruining the lives of his closest friends and lovers. Presented in flashbacks, director Edgar G. Ulmer's film traces Horace's shameful quest for wealth and uncovers what drove him to become so unscrupulous.

A woman in a coastal town in Maine uses her beauty to get what she wants. When her drunken father dies she improves her situation and marries a man with money; but does not change her ways

A woman in a coastal town in Maine uses her beauty to get what she wants. When her drunken father dies she improves her situation and marries a man with money; but does not change her ways