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The House Across the Lake is a film of genre Drama directed by Ken Hughes released in USA on 16 april 1954 with Alex Nicol

The House Across the Lake (1954)

The House Across the Lake
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Released in USA 16 april 1954
Length 1h8
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating59% 2.9956852.9956852.9956852.9956852.995685

The House Across the Lake is a 1954 British film released in the United States as Heat Wave. The film noir drama, filmed and set in England, stars Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke, who are the only Americans in the cast. Brooke actually plays a British character, as she did in most films. (Her mastery of a "posh" accent caused her to be typecast as British in Hollywood films starting in the 1940s.)

Synopsis

An American pulp novelist, Mark Kendrick (Nicol), meets his rich neighbors across the lake and is soon seduced by beautiful blonde Carol (Brooke), the wife of the older Forrest (James). Forrest is badly injured when his boat has an accident in the fog, and Carol throws him overboard.

Actors

Alex Nicol

(Mark Kendrick)Hillary Brooke

(Carol Forrest)Sid James

(Beverly Forrest (as Sidney James))Susan Stephen

(Andrea Forrest)Paul Carpenter

(Vincent Gordon)
And :
Alan Wheatley
Peter Illing
Gordon McLeod
Joan Hickson
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