House by the River
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
There were few filmmakers whose work Pierre Rissient revered more than Fritz Lang, whom he counted among his friends, and this wild gothic period melodrama, made at Republic Pictures, starring Louis Hayward and Jane Wyatt, was one of his favorites.
There were few filmmakers whose work Pierre revered more than Fritz Lang, whom he counted among his friends. When Lang came to the Cinémathèque Française for a retrospective of his work in the late 1950s, Pierre and Claude Chabrol asked him about this wild gothic period melodrama, made at Republic Pictures, starring Louis Hayward and Jane Wyatt, a print of which could not be found and which was still unseen in France. Lang, said Pierre, “could describe shot by shot the first ten, twelve minutes of the film. It was almost as if we were seeing the film.” Pierre not only found a way of seeing House by the River, he acquired the rights and distributed the film himself.
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