The Red House (1947)

Directed by Delmer Daves, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Allene Roberts, and Julie London. Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Agnew Chamberlain.
A young woman is raised by a brother and sister who are concealing a secret involving an abandoned farmhouse located deep in the woods on their sprawling property.

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i LOVE the red house 1947. to me it is one of the most freudian films EVER! in danny peary's review of king kong his theory is that skull island represents the subconscious mind of carl denham. this theory can easily be applied to the ox head woods and edward g. robinson's character in the red house 1947. just as the dark memories of the past are repressed (or least he attempts to repress them) in the back of his mind, the red house is buried deep within the ox head woods. EGR can not guard the ox head woods. he has a bad leg. often in cinema freudian terms a lame leg = impotence. he hires a much younger, much more virile man for the job (rory calhoun) who is always popping off his rifle (a phallic symbol). when the teens go searching for the red house their quest is in vain as one 'non-believer' is present and distractions are a plenty. yet when the young girl goes to sleep her subconscious mind unlocks the deep buried memory of the secret location of the red house. she awakens and goes straight to the red house!