The Tell-Tale Heart

6.5

Genre: Crime Horror
Run time: 20 min
Premiere: 1941. October 25.

Director: Jules Dassin
Writer: Doane R. Hoag Edgar Allan Poe
Starring: Joseph Schildkraut Roman Bohnen Oscar O'Shea Will Wright

In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

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Joseph Schildkraut

Young Man

Roman Bohnen

Old Man

Oscar O'Shea

First Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

Will Wright

Second Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

Art

Richard Duce

Art Direction

Camera

Paul Vogel

Director of Photography

Directing

Jules Dassin

Director

Editing

Adrienne Fazan

Editor

Sound

Sol Kaplan

Music

Writing

Doane R. Hoag

Screenplay

Edgar Allan Poe

Short Story

Art