The Tell-Tale Heart - Short Film of the Edgar Allen Poe Story

The Tell-Tale Heart Producer Brian Freeston. Story by Edgar Allen-Poe. The genius cinematographer, Jack Cardiff at 90, lit this gem as one of his last films in his extraordinary career spanning 8 decades. Made as a tribute to this wonderful man and, to be honest, to have an excuse to hear some of those anecdotes from the heyday of Hollywood. Directed by Stephanie Sinclaire. Made entirely at the King's Head Theatre, Islington, London. Check out the extraordinary day-for-night scene. Made on 35 ml. and with the kind generosity of many in the film industry.

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[9SJT53]

Hey Brian  Its Steve the illustrator on this little Gem. It was an honour to be on the same credit roll as the great man himself.

Jack Cardiff.

[TheFilmandTVChannel]

Hi Steve - good to hear from you! Sorry it's taken so long to reply. Totally agree with you. I'm sure you noticed his passing was recognised at both BAFTA and the Academy Award ceremonies.

[MorroccoSurrogate]

Such a strangely fitting choice for the role of the narrator. He's so handsome and youthful, so intensely innocent-looking. As he says, he's the kind of person from whom you would expect nothing.

[trintygarden]

WHAT RELY HAPPEN

Edgar is irratated by the old man eye so edgar plots to kill the old man.

every night for 8 days edgar stalked the man at night(midnight) and pretended he was his friend during the day. on the 8th edgar strangled the old man by pulling him on the ground and laying the heavy bed on him. after edgar suffucated the man he cut his body parts and hid them under the floor boards (3!!) policemen came due to a shriek and investigated.Finnaly Edgar had a breakdown and told on himself

[muma0449]

Basically The narrators conscious came back to haunt him, which ultimately lead him to confess

[ihavebeenmarked99]

@taylorsetch how'd ya noe? i am.

[ihavebeenmarked99]

@tawnihart13241 wat do u wanna noe? im doin a critical review on this.

[tawnihart13241]

i am reading this in class and i have homwrok on it so hellppp anyone???

[XxlonerxinxlovexX]

I notice a lot of people are pointing out the changes between this film and the original story...

This film looks to be of fairly low budget and so adding a scene of limb dismemberment would've been impossible - believe it or not, it's quite expensive to do special effects like that. As for the cause of death - the mattress... yeah, they could've killed the actor if they really did that. So, for those reasons (I think), the story had to be slightly changed :)

[tenser4]

Wow that was incredible! I loved how it was narrated. Just...perfect.

[cleopatra88ZaiNEW]

genius pure genius

[Heavenlyhounds96]

Old Edgar A. Poe was quite a genius when it came to writing such tales of regret, madness, insanity, and dark mysteries.