Film noir 'The Red House' is this weekend LRPA late show

LACONIA — The 1947 film noir psychological thriller "The Red House" will be this weekend's feature LRPA After Dark presentation on Public Access Channel 25 this Friday and Saturday at 10:30 p.m.

"The Red House," starring Edward G. Robinson, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts and Lon McCallister, introduces the viewer to Pete Morgan (Robinson), a disabled farmer who lives on an isolated farm with his sister Ellen (Anderson) and Meg (Roberts), a teen that they adopted as an infant when her parents died.

Pete is having trouble keeping up with the farm, so Meg's classmate Nath Storm (McCallister) comes as a hired hand to help with the chores. Meg is delighted, as she has a crush on Nath, even though he has a girlfriend. The Morgan farm is surrounded by Ox Head Woods. Pete forbids the teens to enter the woods, and warns them of an abandoned building there known as The Red House. One night, Nath takes a shortcut through the woods, where someone knocks him out cold. As more strange events unfold, Nath and Meg become suspicious of Pete's obsession with the woods and the Red House. They begin to ask questions and explore on their own, which fills Pete with unspeakable rage – and slowly drives him mad. Meg and Nath feel that their lives may be in danger; what might have happened at The Red House to turn Pete into such a jealous, unstable person?

Those who are not MetroCast Cablevision subscribers cam watch "The Red House" by logging onto the live stream at the LRPA website, www.lrpa.org.