While called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name.While called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name.While called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name.
Selma Vaz Dias
- Mrs. Vine - Housekeeper
- (as Selma Vaz Díaz)
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Did you know
- TriviaAt the beginning of the film, the landlady calls the protagonist "Mr. Poe" three times, but throughout the remainder of the film, his name is Edgar Marsh.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Fanboy & Chum Chum: The Frosty Bus/The Tell-Tale Toy (2010)
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When Edgar sees his girlfriend Betty getting up close and personal with his best friend Carl, he murders Carl in a jealous rage and hides the corpse under the floor of his piano room. Comes the night, and Edgar begins to hear strange sounds coming from under the floor...
The problem with this film is that it apparently fell into the public domain, so the DVD copies floating around are pretty rough, and make the film look much cheaper than it really is. A better version (which may never happen), might reveal this to be a lost classic, actually predating Roger Corman's Poe films by a few years.
The costumes and such are very nice, and the story is well-written to build up to the part that Poe covered. While this is obviously a Poe tale, the writer (Brian Clemens) deserves much credit, as the bulk is his creation.
The problem with this film is that it apparently fell into the public domain, so the DVD copies floating around are pretty rough, and make the film look much cheaper than it really is. A better version (which may never happen), might reveal this to be a lost classic, actually predating Roger Corman's Poe films by a few years.
The costumes and such are very nice, and the story is well-written to build up to the part that Poe covered. While this is obviously a Poe tale, the writer (Brian Clemens) deserves much credit, as the bulk is his creation.
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- Jul 21, 2014
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Das Haus der 1000 Schreie
- Filming locations
- New Elstree Studios, The Waterfront, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK(Studio, now The Waterfront Elstree)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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