The Red House

Farmer Pete (Edward G. Robinson) hopes to resume normal relations with adoptive daughter Meg (Allene Roberts), after his own spooky outbursts, sparked by her friend, the new hired hand Nath (Lon McCallister), who insisted on crossing the forbidden Ox Head Woods, in Delmer Daves’ The Red House, 1947. uveneverexplained_FC

We meet leading man Edward G. Robinson as farmer Pete, whose adopted daughter Meg (Allene Roberts), home from high school, hopes he’ll hire her friend Nath (Lon McCallister) who’s dating the school bombshell, to help with routine tasks, in writer-director Delmer Daves’ The Red House, 1947.

Nath (Lon McCalllister), inquisitive at dinner after his first afternoon working at the Morgan farm, hired at the urging of Meg (Allene Roberts), with her adoptive father Pete (Edward G. Robinson) and his sister (Judith Anderson), events taking a sudden dark turn, early in The Red House, 1947.