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"AGAINST ALL FLAGS" TRAILER (1952, COLOR)
ADVENTURE. TRAILER PRESENTED BY ERROL FLYNN. WITH MAUREEN O'HARA, ANTHONY QUINN, MILDREN NATWICK. SWASHBUCKLING PIRATE ADVENTURE. 1700s PIRATES OF MADAGASCAR. TERROR OF THE INDIAN OCEAN. LOOTING, PILLAGING, WARRING |
Specialty CollectionGenre: 1940s FEATURE FILMS
Description: SUSPENSE MELODRAMA, HORROR-DRAMA STARRING EDWARD G. ROBINSON, LON MCCALLISTER, ALLENE ROBERTS, JUDITH ANDERSON, RORY CALHOUN, JULIE LONDON, ONA MUNSON, HARRY SHANNON, ARTHUR SPACE. WALTER SANDE, PAT FLAHERTY. A MOODY FARMER'S GUILTY OBSESSION WITH AN OLD HOUSE IN THE WOODS, IS THAT HE MURDERED HIS PARENTS IN IT. A CRIPPLED FARMER LIVING A SECLUDED LIFE WITH HIS SISTER & HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER. HE HAS STRICT ORDERS THAT NO ONE IS TO VISIT A RED HOUSE LOCATED IN THE WOODS SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY, & HE ENFORCES THIS RULE BY HIRING SOMEONE TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM TRESPASSING. HE NEEDS AN EXTRA HAND & HIRES A BACKWOODSMAN. THE HIRED HAND & THE DAUGHTER ARE CURIOUS WHY THE FARMER IS SO ADAMANT ABOUT PEOPLE VISITING THE LITTLE RED HOUSE, SO THEY DECIDE TO DISCOVER FOR THEMSELVES WHAT SECRETS LIE BEHIND THE DOOR. AS THEY NEAR THE HOUSE, THEY ARE SHOT BY THE GUARD UNDER THE FARMER'S ORDERS. REALIZING THAT THE HOUSE POSES A MENTAL THREAT TO HER BROTHER, THE SISTER ATTEMPTS TO BURN IT DOWN, AND WITH IT, THE SECRETS. HOWEVER SHE IS SHOT & KILLED. AS SHE IS DYING, HOWEVER, SHE REVEALS TO THE HIRED HAND & DAUGHTER THAT 15 YEARS EARLIER, THE GIRL'S PARENTS OWNED THE RED HOUSE, WHERE THEY WERE MURDERED BY THE FARMER, AS A RESULT OF HIS UNREQUITED LOVE FOR HER MOTHER. WITH THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER, THE FARMER LOSES ALL MENTAL CONTROL & ATTEMPTS TO LURE THE GIRL TO THE HOUSE SO THAT SHE CAN RECEIVE THE SAME FATE AS HER PARENTS. BUT BEFORE HE IS ABLE TO KILL HER, THE POLICE ARRIVE IN TIME TO SAVE HER. THE STORY ENDS WITH THE FARMER KILLING HIMSELF, COMMITTING SUICIDE BY DRIVING HIS TRUCK INTO THE MARSHY SWAMP WHERE HE HAD DUMPED THE BODIES OF THE PARENTS 15 YEARS EARLIER.
