There's something in them thar woods... A young woman is warned off venturing too far from the homestead by her parents, but the lure of that old red house is just too much to resist. Edward G Robinson gives a whompingly overblown performance as the man of the house with a dark secret scratching to get out. A dark tale of sexual awakening and repressed family memories: melodramatic almost to the point of failure, but a mesmersing fairy tale of the Grimm school nonetheless. Delmer Daves may have find out more...