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Born Edgar Poe; his father abandoned the family shortly after Edgar's birth. When Edgar was two and a half years old, his mother died of tuberculosis. Edgar was raised by Frances Allan, the wife of a Richmond, Virginia merchant who never legally adopted him.

Edgar Allan Poe Collection of short films

"The Edgar Allan Poe Collection, Volume 1: Annabel Lee and Other Tales of Mystery and Imagination" DVD [Lurker Films 2005]
Lurker Films color DVD [2005] out of prodn/used
Microcinema color DVD [10/2008] out of prodn/used
contains 3 short film adaptations, total run time 100 minutes: "Annabel Lee" [20 mins; 2001] by director George Higham, filmed using marionette puppets {not listed on IMDb} + official movie site; "The Raven" [b&w] by director Peter Bradley {not listed on IMDb}; and "El Corazón Delator" [9 mins; 2003] by director Alfonso S. Suarez, in Spanish with English subtitles { IMDb }

"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Movie-dom is fascinated with Poe's classic 1843 story, with over forty film & TV versions made, 1934 to 2012

"Bucket of Blood" [Fox/DuWorld Pictures June 1934] /tt0149973/
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst; adapted from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by David Plunkett Greene & Brian Desmond Hurst

"Il Cuore Rivelatore (The Revealing Heart)" [Italy 1934] /tt3426412/
Directed by Alberto Mondadori; adapted from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Alberto Mondadori & Mario Monicelli

"The Tell-Tale Heart" 20-minute short [M.G.M. Oct 1941] /tt0122748/
Directed by Jules Dassin; screenplay by Doane R. Hoag; starring Joseph Schildkraut & Roman Bohnen

"Tell-Tale Heart" TV movie [WBKB-TV Chicago Feb 1947] /tt4651870/
{this 20-minute show is considered lost} • Directed by Helen Carson; adapted by Bill Vance; starring Bill Vance, Bruno VeSota

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [ABC-TV Feb 1949] /tt0505176/ Season 1 Episode 22 of the "Actor's Studio" ½-hour TV series [1948–1950]

"Heartbeat/Mardi Gras" [General Television/NBC-TV Oct 1949] /tt0041023/ Season 2, Episode 7 of "Fireside Theatre" ½-hour TV series [1949–1955]
seems to be two segments: "Mardi Gras" {no info} and "Heartbeat", based on "The Tell-Tale Heart", directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Richard Hart

"Unusual Tales" anthology movie [France Oct 1949] /tt0206012/
original title: "Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (Extraordinary stories to scare or make people laugh)"
Co-written & directed by Jean Faurez; co-written by Guy Decomble; based on stories by Charles Baudelaire, Thomas De Quincey
('Murder Considered As One of The Fine Arts'), and Edgar Allan Poe ('The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Cask of Amontillado')

"Coração Delator" TV series? [1953] based on "The Tell-Tale Heart" /tt0294042/

Tell-Tale Heart animated short from 1953

"The Tell-Tale Heart" animated short [U.P.A./Columbia Dec 1953]
7½-minute Technicolor animated short film in an abstract style • Produced by Stephen Bosustow; directed 'with authority' by Ted Parmelee; adapted from Poe's short story by Bill Scott & Fred Grable; animated by Pat Matthews & Paul Julian; narrated by James Mason; Oscar nom for Best Animated Short; listed at National Film Registry (2001)
included in 3-disk DVD set "U.P.A.: The Jolly Frolics Collection" [3/2012]
Turner Classics Movies DVD [11/2014] for $36.58
full credits at IMDb • watch [7:25] free online at Vimeo

"The Tell-Tale Heart" short [Adelphi Films UK, Dec 1953] starring Stanley Baker /tt0450851/

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [CBC-TV Dec 1955] /tt1386869/
Season 2, Episode 14 of the "On Camera" ½-hour TV series [1954-58]

"Manfish" [United Artists USA/British Lion Feb 1956] /tt0049477/
partly based on Poe's stories 'The Gold Bug' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [NBC-TV Nov 1956] /tt0643599/
Season 2, Episode 38 of the "Matinee Theatre" TV series [1955-58]

"The Telltale Heart" TV movie [CBC-TV March 1958] /tt6341748/
"The Tell-Tale Heart [1958] /tt0298569/

"Das Verräterische Herz (The Treacherous Heart)" TV short [ORF-TV Austria June 1958] /tt4492538/

"Masterworks of Terror (Obras Maestras del Terror)" [Argentina July 1960] /tt4913550/
anthology feature film edited from 3 episodes of the 1959 Argentine TV series: "... Valdemar", "... Amontillado", and "Tell-Tale Heart"

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [CBS-TV Sept 1960] /tt1696913/
Season 1, Episode 3 of "The Robert Herridge Theater" TV series [1960]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [Danziger Prodns Dec 1960]
Depicts Poe dreaming the story; a young man sees his girlfriend flirting with his best friend, so he murders his rival and hides the body under the floor of the piano room • Directed by Ernest Morris; starring Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh, Selma Vaz Dias, John Scott & John Martin
Alpha Video DVD [1/2004] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"The Tell-Tale Heart (1971) /tt0260421/
"Hjertet der Sladrede" aka "The Tell Tale Heart" (1971) (TV) /tt0330401/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (1986) /tt0304806/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (1989) /tt0253796/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (1991) (TV) /tt0324194/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (1991) (V) /tt0497983/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (1999) (TV) /tt0385281/

"The Tell-Tale Heart (2002) /tt0764278/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2003) (V) /tt0329663/
"Das verräterische Herz" aka "The Tell-Tale Heart" (2003) /tt0339856/

"El Corazón Delator" 9-minute live-action short [Spain 2003]
Adapted & directed by Alfonso S. Suárez; starring Paul Naschy, Eladio Sánchez & Paco Hernández
available on the Poe collection DVDs above • credits at IMDb

"The Tell-Tale Heart (2004) /tt0408256/
"The Tell Tale Heart" [indep 2005] /tt0774692/

The Tell-Tale Heart 16-minute short film

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [2005]
16-minute short film produced & directed by Chris & Dan Flynn, featuring Sarah M. Hartley
DVD/Blu-ray not available • not listed on IMDb • official movie page
watch [15:59] free online at Vimeo

"The Tell Tale Heart" (2006) /tt0892106/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2006) /tt0884211/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2007) /tt1340047/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2007 short) /tt1340047/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2008/I) /tt1330057/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2008/II) /tt1357207/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2008/I) /tt1380958/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2008/II) /tt1437315/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2008/III) /tt1549101/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2009/I) /tt1774634/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2009/II) /tt1905062/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2009) (V) /tt1507995/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2009/I) /tt1469294/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2009/II) /tt1391128/
"The Tell-Tale Heart (2009/III) /tt1764697/
"The Tell-Tale Heart" (2010) /tt1717723/
"The Tell Tale Heart" (2010) /tt1600075/
"Modern Tale-Tell Heart" 20-minute short [2010] /tt1754211/

"The Tell Tale Heart" [Australia May 2011]
15-minute color short film written, produced & directed by Claude Gonzalez; starring Timothy Walter
DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [VOD release Sept 2011]
14-minute color short co-produced & written by Jane Merrow; directed by
Gregory James Green; starring Darren E. Burrows
video-on-demand available at producer website for $1.00 {sic}; DVD for $14.75
full credits at IMDb

early half-sheet for The Tell-Tale Heart 2012

"The Tell-Tale Heart" feature film [indep Aug 2012]
Set in modern times; a tormented man repeatedly self-admits to a halfway house in a futile attempt to escape a spiral into madness • Co-produced & co-written by George M. Kostuch; co-written & directed by John La Tier; script 'inspired by' Edgar Allan Poe; starring Patrick John Flueger, Rose McGowan, Peter Bogdanovich, Jacob Vargas, Damon Whitaker
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available
full credits at IMDb • official movie site {down 3/2012}

"Sherlock Holmes In The Great Murder Mystery" [Crescent Film Company Nov 1908] /tt0299137/
main character from Arthur Conan Doyle, based on a novel by Edgar Allan Poe

"Le Puits et Le Pendule (The Well & The Pendulum)" b&w silent short
[Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse 1909] /tt0463677/

"The Sealed Room" b&w silent short [Biograph Sept 1909]

D.W. Griffith 1909 silent short "The Sealed Room"

Based on Balzac's 1831 story "La Grande Bretèche" and Poe's 1846 story "A Cask of Amontillado"; instead of a cellar room, a nobleman constructs a windowless tower room for his trysts with his wife; when he discovers that she is cavorting there with a court troubadour, he calls his masons and has the room sealed up with them inside
Directed by D.W. Griffith; script by Frank E. Woods; starring Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard & Henry B. Walthall; minor roles for Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Linda Arvidson & Owen Moore
available on VHS & DVD among the Griffith collections box sets
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
watch full movie [7/2010 upload; 11:16] free online at Internet Archive

"Une Vengeance d'Edgar Poë (The Vengeance of Edgard Poe)" silent short [Pathé Frères France 1912] /tt0002552/
Directed by Gérard Bourgeois; scenario by Abel Gance

"The Pit and The Pendulum" [Solax Film Company 1913] Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché /tt0223931/

"Dr. Goudron's System" [Société Française des Films Éclair Dec 1913, USA June 1914] /tt0002515/
original title "Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume" • Directed by Maurice Tourneur

"The Avenging Conscience: or, Thou Shalt Not Kill" [1914] /tt0003643/
Directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet
uses elements from stories "The Pit and The Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the poem "Annabel Lee"

"Die Braune Bestie (The Brown Beast)" [Vitascope GmbH Germany Feb 1914] /tt0461159/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Beast

"The Golden Beetle (Le Scarabée d'Or)" [Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse Oct 1914] /tt0487757/

"Freitag, der 13: Das Unheimliche Haus (The Eerie House)" [Germany Nov 1916] /tt0444825/
Produced, written & directed by Richard Oswald; Poe is credited for 'additional material'

"Flying Shadows (Fliegende Schatten)" [Germany Dec 1916] /tt0133771/
Directed by Felix Basch; written by actor Curt Goetz, based on "... The Rue Morgue"; starring Max Landa {as Dupin}

"Isle of Oblivion (Ostrov zabveniya)" [Russia April 1917] /tt0154983/
Directed by & starring Viktor Tourjansky; based on a story by Poe

"Die Pest In Florenz" silent film [Deutsche Eclair Germany Nov 1919]
aka "La Peste à Florence (The Plague In Florence)"

An evil seductress suddenly appears in Florence, causing both the city's ruler and his son to fall madly in love with her; the son kills his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery; acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city • Produced by Eric Pommer; directed by Otto Rippert; screenplay by Fritz Lang, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Mask of Red Death' (not by Flaubert's 1836 report); starring Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard, Julietta Brandt, Erner Huebsch, Franz Knaak, Otto Mannstaedt, Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg, Marga von Kierska, Hans Walter, Anders Wikman
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
IMDb lists as 92 minutes; restored 1999/2000; YouTube version is 200 minutes
watch full movie with German intertitles [5/2020 upload; 1:42:37] online at YouTube

"Eerie Tales (Unheimliche Geschichten)" [Germany Nov 1919] /tt0010821/
Produced & directed by Richard Oswald; 2-hour film of five segments, written by Anselma Heine ("Die Erscheinung (The Apparition)"), Robert Liebmann
("Die Hand"), Edgar Allan Poe ("The Black Cat"), Robert Louis Stevenson ("The Suicide Club"), and Richard Oswald ("Der Spuk")

"La Notte Romantica di Dolly (Dolly's Romantic Night)" [Italy Oct 1920] /tt1172661/

"Annabelle Lee" b&w silent feature [American Motion Picture Corp. 1921] /tt0011925/

"Edgar Allan Poe" b&w silent short [Kineto Films Feb 1922] based on the poem "Annabel Lee" /tt0289936/

"A Spectre Haunts Europe (Prizrak Brodit po Evrope)" [Soviet Union Feb 1923] based on "The Masque of The Red Death" /tt0230662/

"Prelude" short [ July 1927] based on "The Premature Burial" /tt0759650/
7-minute short written & directed by and starring Castleton Knight

"The Fall of The House of Usher" (La Chute de La Maison Usher)" silent feature [France Oct 1928] /tt0018770/
assistant director Luis Buñuel quit the picture after clashing with producer/director Jean Epstein over Epstein's decision to basically ignore Poe's story.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" silent short [filmed in 1928, not released?] /tt0018873/

"Operené Stíny (Operated Shadows)" [Czechoslovakia March 1931] based on a Poe short story /tt0959574/

"Murders In The Rue Morgue" [Universal Pictures Feb 1932] starring Bela Lugosi /tt0023249/

"Unheimliche Geschichten (Eerie Tales)" [Germany Sept 1932] /tt0023640/
"The Living Dead" [USA dubbed release Dec 1940]
Produced, co-written & directed by Richard Oswald; based on stories by Poe ('The Black Cat', 'The System of Doctor Tarr') and Robert Louis Stevenson ('The Suicide Club')

"The Black Cat" [Universal Pictures May 1934] /tt0024894/
U.K. release March 1939 as "The House of Doom"; co-written & directed by Edgar G. Ulmer; co-written by Peter Ruric; Poe's story was credited
to draw public attention, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with the story in the movie; starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

"Bucket of Blood" [Fox/DuWorld Pictures June 1934] /tt0149973/
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst; adapted from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by David Plunkett Greene & Brian Desmond Hurst

"Il Cuore Rivelatore (The Revealing Heart)" [Italy 1934] /tt3426412/
Directed by Alberto Mondadori; adapted from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Alberto Mondadori & Mario Monicelli

"Dwain Esper's Maniac" [Roadshow Attractions Sept 1934] /tt0025465/
uncredited partial adaptation of Poe's "The Black Cat"

"The Raven" feature film [Universal July 1935]

The Raven 1935 sound feature film starring Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff

When a young woman is injured in a car crash, her father and fiance persuade a brilliant surgeon to perform delicate surgery to restore her. After learning of the Poe-inspired torture devices in the doctor's home, the girl and her father reject further dealings with him, and he tips into madness and forces a dangerous criminal to help him wreak revenge thru kidnapping and violence • Directed by Lew Landers; starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds, Spencer Charters, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Ian Wolfe & Maidel Turner
Universal Studios b&w DVD [9/2012] for $14.98
M.C.A. Universal b&w VHS [9/92] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"The Crime of Doctor Crespi" [Liberty/Republic/British Lion Sept 1935] /tt0027479/
Co-produced, co-written & directed by John H. Auer; Poe credit reads 'suggested by: Premature Burial'; co-written by
Lou Goldberg & Edwin Olmstead; starring Erich von Stroheim

"Il Caso Valdemar (The Valdemar Case)" short film [Italy 1936] based on a Poe story /tt3427056/

"The Black Cat" feature film [Universal Pictures May 1941] /tt0033397/
starring Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi

"The Tell-Tale Heart" 20-minute short [M.G.M. Oct 1941] /tt0122748/
Directed by Jules Dassin; screenplay by Doane R. Hoag; starring Joseph Schildkraut & Roman Bohnen

"The Mystery of Marie Roget" film-noir feature [Universal Pictures April 1942] /tt0035107/
starring Patric Knowles {as Dupin}, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel

"Tell-Tale Heart" TV movie [WBKB-TV Chicago Feb 1947] /tt4651870/
{this 20-minute show is considered lost} • Directed by Helen Carson; adapted by Bill Vance; starring Bill Vance, Bruno VeSota

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [ABC-TV Feb 1949] /tt0505176/ Season 1 Episode 22 of the "Actor's Studio" ½-hour TV series [1948–1950]

"Edgar Allan Poe Centenary" TV movie [BBC-TV Oct 1949] /tt4502686/
45-minute program honoring the 100th anniversary of Poe's death: three stories 'Some Words With A Mummy',
'The Cask of Amontillado', and 'The Fall of The House of Usher'

"A Cask of Amontillado" [CBS-TV Oct 1949] starring Bela Lugosi /tt0714020/ Season 2, Episode 6 of the "Suspense" TV series [1949-52]

"The Fall of The House of Usher" [NBC-TV Nov 1949] /tt0632356/ Season 2, Episode 11 of the "Lights Out" TV series [1949-52]

The Cuckoo Clock 1950 M.G.M. cartoon short

"The Cuckoo Clock" cartoon short [M.G.M. Cartoon Studio June 1950]
A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so the cat tries dozens of ways to catch him ... • Co-produced by Fred Quimby & William Hanna; co-produced & directed by Tex Avery; story by Rich Hogan & Edgar Allan Poe; voices by Daws Butler • full credits at IMDb
online version [6:47] at Daily Motion requires browser update and watching gamer ads

"The Masque of The Red Death" [NBC-TV Jan 1951] /tt0632381/ Season 3, Episode 23 of the "Lights Out" TV series [1949-52]

"The Purloined Letter" [CBS-TV April 1952] /tt0714061/ Season 4, Episode 32 of the "Suspense" TV series [1949-52]

"The Pit" [NBC-TV April 1952] based on "The Pit and The Pendulum" /tt0632388/ episode of the "Lights Out" TV series [1949-52]

"The Gold Bug" [ZIV Television Feb 1953] /tt1163730/ Season 1, Episode 4 of the "Your Favorite Story" TV series [1953]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [DuMont TV Network Oct 1953] /tt1402173/ episode of the "Monodrama Theater" TV series [1953]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" short [Adelphi Films UK, Dec 1953] starring Stanley Baker /tt0450851/

"Coração Delator" TV series? [1953] based on "The Tell-Tale Heart" /tt0294042/

"Manicomio (Asylum)" comedy feature [Spain Jan 1954] /tt0044880/
based on Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", and stories by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Aleksandr Kuprin & Leonid Andreyev

"Auguste Dupin Findet den Entwendeten Brief (... Finds The Stolen Letter)" [SWF-TV Germany Dec 1954] /tt0488730/
Season 1, Episode 2 of "Die Galerie der Großen Detektive" TV series [1954-55]
based on Poe's "The Purloined Letter"

"Das Verräterische Herz (The Treacherous Heart)" TV movie [BR-TV Germany Dec 1954] /tt2939188/

"Bérénice" [France 1954] /tt0208836/
A man becomes obsessed with his fiance's teeth; 15-minute b&w short in 16mm; written & directed by
and starring Éric Rohmer {first film}; also starring Teresa Gratia

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [CBC-TV Dec 1955] /tt1386869/
Season 2, Episode 14 of the "On Camera" ½-hour TV series [1954-58]

"Manfish" [United Artists USA/British Lion Feb 1956] /tt0049477/ partly based on Poe's stories 'The Gold Bug' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

"The Fall of the House of Usher" [NBC-TV Aug 1956] /tt0643566/
Season 1, Episode 197 of the "Matinee Theatre" TV series [1955-58]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [NBC-TV Nov 1956] /tt0643599/
Season 2, Episode 38 of the "Matinee Theatre" TV series [1955-58]

"The Cask of Amontillado" [ABC-TV/ITV UK March 1957] /tt1092679/
Season 1, Episode 25 of the "Armchair Theatre" TV series [1956-74]

"System Doktora Smoly i Profesora Pierza" [Poland April 1957] /tt8251194/
Season 5, Episode 15 of the "Television Theater" TV series [since 1953]
based on Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"

"The Cask of Amontillado" [NBC-TV July 1957] /tt2561596/
Season 2, Episode 190 of the "Matinee Theatre" TV series [1955-58]

"Das Verräterische Herz (The Treacherous Heart)" TV short [ORF-TV Austria June 1958] /tt4492538/

"Masterworks of Terror" TV series [Canal 7 Buenos Aires Aug 1959] directed by Marta Reguera
"El Corazón Delator (The Denouncing Heart)" TV movie [Canal 7 Buenos Aires 3 Aug 1959] /tt0486814/ + /tt4916236/
"El Caso de Míster Valdemar" [10 Aug 1959] /tt4929534/
"Ligeia" TV movie [17 Aug 1959] /tt0486851/
"Berenice" TV movie [24 Aug 1959] /tt0486807/
"El Tonel del Amontillado" [31 Aug 1959]

"Annabel Lee" [RTF-TV France Jan 1960] /tt10976248/ episode of the "École des Vedettes (School of Stars)" TV series [1956-63]
playscript by Jean Anouilh, based on the poem by Poe; ballet music by Byron Schiffman

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [CBS-TV Sept 1960] /tt1696913/
Season 1, Episode 3 of "The Robert Herridge Theater" TV series [1960]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" [Danziger/Warner-Pathé Dec 1960]
Depicts Poe dreaming the story; a young man sees his girlfriend flirting with his best friend, so he murders his rival and hides the body under the floor of the piano room • Directed by Ernest Morris; starring Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh, Selma Vaz Dias, John Scott & John Martin
Alpha Video DVD [1/2004] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

Roger Corman's 'Poe Series' Films, 1960-64
all directed by Roger Corman and all but one starring Vincent Price

"Tales of Terror" [July 1962] /tt0056552/
adapts 'Morella', 'The Black Cat', '... Amontillado', and '... Valdemar'

"Le Scarabée d'Or (The Gold Bug)" short [France 1961] /tt0258129/
Produced by François Truffaut; written & directed by Robert Lachenay

"Das Verräterische Herz (The Treacherous Heart)" TV short [WDR-TV West Germany June 1961] /tt4492562/

"William Wilson" live episode [NBC-TV July 1961] /tt0592498/
Season 1, Episode 1 of the "Great Ghost Tales" TV series [1961]

"The Premature Burial" TV episode [NBC-TV Oct 1961] /tt0723112/
Season 2, Episode 3 of the "Thriller" TV series [1960-62]

"The Tell-Tale Heart" TV short [Australia Oct 1961] /tt4651820/
A ballet written for the stage; a woman murders an old man and is haunted by the sound of his heart.

"The Blancheville Monster" aka "Horror" [Italy June 1963] /tt0057155/
borrows elements from Poe stories "... Usher", "A Tale of The Ragged Mountains", and "Some Words With A Mummy"

"Ett Fat Amontillado (The Cask of Amontillado)" 20-minute TV short [Finland June 1963] /tt1454097/
"Det förrädiska hjärtat (Tell-Tale Heart)" 20-minute TV short [Finland Oct 1963] /tt1464192/

"The Pit and The Pendulum (Le Puits et Le Pendule)" TV short [RTF-TV France Jan 1964] /tt0206227/

"Castle of Blood" horror film [Italy July 1964] /tt0057993/
Directed by Antonio Margheriti & Sergio Corbucci; Poe is portrayed by Silvano Tranquilli, also starring Barbara Steele

"War-Gods of The Deep" [A.I.P. May 1965] /tt0059895/
aka "The City Under The Sea" and "City In The Sea"
Directed by Jacques Tourneur; based on Poe's 1845 poem; starring Vincent Price & Tab Hunter
http://www.amazon.com/War-Gods-Deep-Blu-ray-Vincent-Price/dp/B00YQTCHTI/
http://www.amazon.com/War-Gods-Deep-Vincent-Price/dp/B00YQTD7AQ/

"Master of Horror" [1965] /tt1503643/
re-edited & redubbed from "Masterworks of Terror" [Argentina July 1960] using only the stories "... Valdemar" and "... Amontillado"

"Terror-Creatures From The Grave" [Italy June 1965, USA April 1966] /tt0060049/
based on unspecified story by Poe; starring Barbara Steele

"Le Coeur Révélateur (The Revealing Heart)" TV movie [ORTF-TV March 1966] /tt4324824/
appears to be a 44-minute b&w choral work with libretto by Philippe Soupault & music by Claude Prey, directed by Annie Aizieu

"The Fall of The House of Usher" [ITV UK Feb 1966] /tt0297883/ Season 1, Episode 3 of the "Mystery and Imagination" TV series [1966-68]

"Die Schlangengrube und Das Pendel (The Snake Pit and The Pendulum)" [West Germany Oct 1967, USA May 1969] /tt0062235/
aka "Blood of The Virgins" and "The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism"
Filmed in Munich & Bavaria in Eastmancolor; starring Lex Barker, Karin Dor & Christopher Lee

"Annabelle Lee" short [1968] not listed on IMDb (2020)
In 1972 new scenes were filmed in Peru which were added to pad the film to feature length; "Diabolic Wedding" {see below}
had a very limited 1974 U.S. release through Ellman Enterprises as part of a four-film package deal.

"Witchfinder General" [Tigon Pictures/A.I.P. May 1968] /tt0063285/
Filmed in Eastmancolor in Suffolk, Norfolk & East Sussex, England; based on a novel by Ronald Bassett; starring Vincent Price & Robert Russell;
the story has nothing to do with Poe's poem 'The Conqueror Worm' which Price reads at the end of the film

"The Telltale Heart" [ABC Weekend/I.T.V. UK June 1968] /tt0303135/
Season 3, Episode 5 of the "Mystery and Imagination" TV series [1966-68]

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue" [BBC-TV Sept 1968] /tt0558812/ Season 2, Episode 17 of the "Detective" TV series [1964-69]
starring Edward Woodward {as Auguste Dupin}, Charles Kay {as Edgar Allan Poe}

"House of Evil" [filmed in 1968, released 1972] /tt0063097/
Directed by Jack Hill & Juan Ibáñez; starring Boris Karloff {final film}

"The Oblong Box" [A.I.P. June 1969] /tt0064747/
starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Rupert Davies

"World Wide Adventures: Annabel Lee" short film [M.G.M./Warner Bros./Seven Arts Nov 1969] Narrated by Vincent Price /tt2006687/

"Maska Crvene Smrti (The Mask of The Red Death)" color animated short [Zagreb Film 1969] /tt0943453/

"An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe" TV special [M.G.M./AIP-TV Jan 1970] /tt0229371/
Vincent Price recites four Poe stories: 'Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Sphinx', '... Amontillado', and '... Pendulum'; music by Les Baxter conducting the Munich Studio Orchestra

"Nevermore" [National Educational TV Aug 1970] /tt4319270/ Season 1, Episode 5 of the "Actor's Choice" TV series [1960-71]
Produced & directed by Glenn Jordan; hosted by Hal Holbrook, starring Frank Langella & Carrie Nye

"Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno (In the Spider's Narrow Bite)" horror film [Italy Aug 1971, USA Oct 1975] /tt0066132/
aka "Web of The Spider"; directed by Antonio Margheriti; music by Riz Ortolani; starring Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier & Klaus Kinski {as Poe}

"Eleonora" [TVE Spain May 1971] /tt0408738/ episode of the "Hora Once (Eleventh Hour)" TV series [1968-74]

"Murders In The Rue Morgue" [A.I.P. July 1971] /tt0067457/
Filmed in Spain; starring Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Lilli Palmer, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi {as Insp. Vidocq}

"Night Gallery" TV series [1969-73] /tt0660787/
Season 2, Episode 2 [Sept 1971] segments 'Death in the Family', 'The Merciful', 'Class of '99', 'Witches' Feast'
"The Merciful" segment had an old woman (Imogene Coca) apparently sealing her husband (King Donavan), passively seated in an old chair, in the basement behind a brick wall
that she is building; she assures him that it is 'really much better this way', that she is 'doing this for your own good'; when she finishes the wall, the old man gets up
and walks upstairs to the main floor of the house: his wife has sealed herself in.

"Hjertet der Sladrede (The Heart That Gossiped)" animated TV short [DR-TV Denmark Dec 1971] /tt0330401/

"La Maschera della Morte Rossa" animated short [Zagreb Film Italy 1971] /tt2750750/

"Beczka Amontillado (Barrel of Amontillado)" color TV short [Telewizja Polska Feb 1972] /tt1817096/

"Doble Asesinato en La Calle Morgue (Double Murder On Morgue Street)" [TVE Spain June 1972] Episode Ficciones (1971–1981) /tt0579120/

"Legend of Horror" [General Film Corp. July 1972] /tt0140324/
variation of Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart": two men escape prison and one begins a murder spree . . .

"Il Tuo Vizio è Una Stanza Chiusa e Solo Io Ne Ho La Chiave (Your Vice Is A Locked Room and Only I Have The Key)" [Italy Aug 1972]
/tt0069421/ freely adapted from the story "The Black Cat"

"System" TV short [Zespól Filmowy 1972 / Telewizja Polska (Poland TV) 1981] /tt0262804/
co-written & directed by Janusz Majewski; co-written by Stanislaw Kasprzysiak; based on "The System of Dr. Tarr & Prof. Fether"

"One Minute Before Death" aka "Edgar Allan Poe's One Minute Before Midnight" [Mexico 1972] /tt0130927/
based on Poe's "The Oval Portrait"; directed by Rogelio A. González Jr.; written by Enrique Torres Tudela; starring Wanda Hendrix

"House/Mansion of Madness" [Mexico Aug 1973, USA March 1976] /tt0068504/
based on "The System of Doctor Tarr and Prof. Fether"; co-written & directed by Juan López Moctezuma

"Hilda Muramer" TV movie [1973] Directed by Jacques Trébouta /tt0317656/
based on a stageplay (based on Poe's "Metzengerstein") & screen adaptation written by French Mauritian poet Loys Masson [1915-69]

"Imp of The Perverse" [1973] /tt6274366/
student film written & directed by and starring Josh Becker; based on a Poe short story

"Diabolic Wedding" [Feb 1974] /tt0139858/
Began as short film "Annabelle Lee" released in 1968 (not listed on IMDb); in 1972 new scenes were filmed in Peru which were added to pad the film to feature length; released to some theaters by Ellman Enterprises as part of a four-film package; the other three were "Master of Horror" [1965], "The Gruesome Twosome" [1967], and "The Wizard of Gore" [1970]

"Le Chevalier Dupin: La Lettre Volée (The Stolen Letter)" [1974] /tt0906695/
Season 1, Episode 6 of the "Les Grands Détectives" TV series []

"Poe o la atracción del abismo" [1974] (1974) ...episode of the "Los Libros" (TV Series) (excerpts - 1 )

"Satanás de todos los horrores" [1974] (story "The Fall of The House of Usher" - as Edgar A. Poe)

"Ukradnuty list" [1974] episode of the "A.C. Dupin zasahuje" TV Mini-Series [1974]

"Vrazda v ulici morgue" [1974]episode of the "A.C. Dupin zasahuje" TV Mini-Series [1974]

"The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe" [Cinerama Releasing May 1974] /tt0072197/
starring Robert Walker Jr. (as Poe}, Cesar Romero & Tom Drake

"La pesadilla" [1974] episode of the "Narciso Ibáñez Menta" (TV Series) [1974]

"Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination" [indep 1995]

Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination short films

Filmed in Croatia and South Africa; described by Amazon reviewers as 'pitiful' and 'devoid of imagination or terror' and 'disappointing' • series credits at IMDb
B.F.S. Ent. DVD set [9/2006] 13 short films on 4 disks - out of prodn/used
contains 12 short films (or episodes) hosted by Christopher Lee: "Berenice"; "The Black Cat"; "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Fall of The House of Usher"; "Ligeia"; "The Masque of The Red Death, Parts One & Two"; "Morella"; "Mr. Valdemar"; "The Oval Portrait"; "The Pit and The Pendulum"; "The Tell-Tale Heart"; also includes bonus short "Biographical Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe"

"Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of The Soul" [WNET-TV 13/P.B.S. March 1995]
Season 9, Episode 4 of the "American Masters" TV series [1986-96]

'Edgar Allan Poe Terror of The Soul' episode of 'American Masters'

includes a story segment based on "The Cask of Amontillado" • Co-produced, co-written & co-directed by Karen Thomas; co-written & co-directed by Joyce Chopra; narrated by Ruby Dee; starring Tony/Anthony Maggio {as Edgar Allan Poe}, Eric Christmas, Sky Rumph, Michelle Joyner, Pam Van Sant, Devyn Puett, Marianne Mueller-leile, Robert Dowdell, Val Bettin, Philip Glass, Alfred Kazin, Patrick Quinn, Kenneth Silverman, Richard Wilbur, Rene Auberjonois, John Heard, Heidi Schooler
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • watch full movie [55:49] online at SchoolTube

"Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven" (2007) (TV)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1006947/

"Tales of Mystery and Imagination" [New Zealand 2009]

Tales of Mystery and Imagination feature film inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe

"A film-and-music interpretation of the Gothic poetry and short stories of Edgar
Allan Poe" 75-minute film with surreal music and often-abstract visuals as back-
ground for an actor reciting "The Raven" and other Poe works • Produced &
directed by New Zealand filmmaker Geoff Murphy; music composed by Lucian
Johnson, performed by Village of The Idiots
Region 4? DVD available at FilmShop in New Zealand
bare credits at IMDb
watch music video samples [4:18] free online at YouTube

"The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe" (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825169/

"Twixt" horror film [American Zoetrope; Pathé Europe April 2012?]

Francis Ford Coppola's horror film "Twixt"

Filmed in Northern California and at Coppola's estate in Napa Valley. A writer in decline visits a remote town on a book tour and becomes involved in a murder investigation; he is visited by a young girl ghost named V during a dream . . . • Co-produced, written & directed by Francis Ford Coppola; starring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin {as Edgar Allan Poe}, Elle Fanning, Joanne Whalley & David Paymer
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available
full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Poe" horror film [Maverick Ent. May 2012?]
Announced 3/2012: Film involves madness and cannibalism of Dr. Casey and opposition by Poe descendant Jonathan Poe; written & directed by Francis Xavier;
starring Stelio Savante, David Fine, Gene Silvers & Sal Landi. The planned sequel is "Poe II: The Return of Dr. Casey" • full credits at IMDb

"Poe" animated feature film [indep release June 2013?]

Poe animated feature film by Michael Sporn

90-minute animated feature film that tells the story of Edgar Allan Poe's life as frame for four short stories – 'Manuscript In A Bottle', 'Murder In The Rue Morgue', 'Premature Burial', and 'The Black Cat' – and several of Poe's poems • Co-produced & directed by Michael Sporn; written by Maxine Fisher; voices of Alfred Molina, Joanna Scanlan, Mark Somen
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site

"Eliza Graves" feature film [Icon/Millennium 2013?]
Announced 11/2012: Oren Peli switched from director to producer, replaced by Brad Anderson; based on Poe’s short story "The System of Doctor Tarr
& Professor Fether", about a medical intern falling in love with a mental patient just as the institution is overrun by the inmates • full credits at IMDb

Poe Film Remakes [New Horizons Productions 2013-2016]
Announced 12/2012: 'B-movie King' Roger Corman is making new versions of eight low-budget horror films that he adapted & directed in the 1950s and 1960s. Each is based on a story by XIXth-Century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. "House of Usher" will be followed by "The Pit and The Pendulum", "Premature Burial", "Tales of Terror", "The Raven", "The Haunted Palace", "The Masque of The Red Death", and "The Tomb of Ligeia". This time, 86-year-old Corman will produce but not direct the films; the plan is to film two movies per year on budgets of $2-2.5 million, self-financed by Corman • not yet listed at IMDb

"Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" [P.B.S. 2016]
Season 31, Episode 8 of the "American Masters" TV series [since 1986]

'Edgar Allan Poe Buried Alive' episode of 'American Masters'

Written & directed by Eric Stange; starring Denis O'Hare {as Edgar Allan Poe};
narrated by Kathleen Turner, with readings by Chris Sarandon & Ben Schnetzer
P.B.S. Direct widescreen color DVD [10/2017] for $16.49
bare credits at IMDb

"The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe" feature film [Fox Aug 1942]

Loves of Edgar Allan Poe 1942 feature film

A full treatment of Poe's short life: unhappy childhood, first romance, expulsion from West Point, happy marriage and writing career, and his mysterious death. Produced & adapted by Bryan Foy; directed by Harry Lachman; based on Poe's "Annabel Lee"; co-written by Samuel Hoffen-stein & Tom Reed; starring Shepperd Strudwick/John Shepperd {as Poe}, Linda Darnell, Virginia Gilmore, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Mary Howard, Frank Conroy, Morton Lowry {as Charles Dickens}, Gilbert Emery {as Thomas Jefferson} & Mae Marsh
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

"The Man With A Cloak" [M.G.M. Nov 1951]

half-sheet poster for "The Man With A Cloak"

Hard-drinking author Edgar Allan Poe masquerades as his character Inspector Dupin in 1848 New York City, and helps a young French girl secure her inheritance • Directed by Fletcher Markle; written by Frank Fenton, based on a story by John Dickson Carr; starring Joseph Cotten (as Dupin), Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron, Joe De Santis, Jim Backus, Margaret Wycherly & Richard Hale
MGM Video b&w DVD [12/2010] for $17.99
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"The Death of Poe" [indep 2006] /tt0430001/
Focuses on Poe's last days; he is portrayed as being forgetful, possibly as a result of an illness,
and becomes a victim of 'cooping'; co-written, directed by & starring Mark Redfield
http://www.redfieldarts.com/deathofpoe.html

"The Black Cat" cable TV episode [Starz Jan 2007]

'The Black Cat' episode of 'Masters of Horror'

Season 2, Episode 11of "Masters of Horror"; set in 1840 Philadelphia; author Edgar Allan Poe is desparately in need of income, has writers block, struggles with alcoholism, and is tormented by his wife's black cat • Co-produced by Mick Garris; co-written & directed by Stuart Gordon; co-written by Dennis Paoli; starring Jeffrey Combs {as Poe} & Elyse Levesque {as Virginia Poe}
Starz/Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [7/2007] for $9.86
full credits at IMDb

"Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death, and Women" documentary [Oct 2010] /tt1758601/

"POE" [Warner Bros. / ABC-TV 2012?]
Announced 1/2011: Warner Bros. & ABC-TV greenlighted a one-hour pilot for a network crime procedural drama series set for broadcast
in 2012 that follows Edgar Allan Poe as the world’s first detective, using unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in
19th-century Boston. Co-produced & written by Chris Hollier; co-produced by Dan Lin & Brad Kern; directed by
Alex Graves; starring Christopher Egan, Tabrett Bethell, Kevin McNally, Natalie Dormer & Leslie Odom Jr. • latest info at IMDb

"The Raven" [Rogue/Relativity release April 2012]
Set in Baltimore, Maryland in 1849; a serial killer is using the works of Edgar Allen Poe as backdrop
for his crimes; Poe and a young detective try to prevent the killer's next murder
Directed by James McTeigue; script by Hannah Shakespeare & Ben Livingston; starring John Cusack, Luke Evans
& Alice Eve • \ DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • latest info at IMDb • official movie site
{ NOT to be confused with Universal's Mark Wahlberg "Raven" project }

"The Macabre Death of Edgar Allan Poe" [YouTube March 2020]

The Macabre Death of Edgar Allan Poe web episode on BuzzFeed Unsolved

Season 6, Episode 1 of the "BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime" web series [since 2016]
Two lame semi-funny hosts discuss the story of the 1849 death of Baltimore author Edgar Allen Poe; format includes solid facts, old photographs, and text of some dialogues
Co-produced & directed by Ryan Bergara; hosted by Ryan Bergara & Shane Madej
bare credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia
watch full episode [3/2020 upload; 23:28] online at YouTube

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	Hosted by Peter Graves, featuring Norman George {as Poe}, Paul Clemens & David Janssen A&E Home Video 50-minute color DVD [8/2004] for $22.49 A&E Home Video 60-minute color VHS [3/97] out of prodn/used credits at IMDb watch entire episode [59:22] free online at A&E Biography
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