Bucket of Blood

Name: The Tell-Tale Heart
Genre: Horror
Released: 1934-06-14
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell

Original title: The Tell-Tale Heart

19341934
55m

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6.0/10

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Horror

A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him.A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him.A young man is driven mad by his obsession with the repulsive diseased eye of the old man who cares for him.

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6.0/10

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Director
- Brian Desmond Hurst
Writers
- David Plunket Greene(adaptation)
- Brian Desmond Hurst(scenario)
- Edgar Allan Poe(story "The Tell-Tale Heart")
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Director
- Brian Desmond Hurst
Writers
- David Plunket Greene(adaptation)
- Brian Desmond Hurst(scenario)
- Edgar Allan Poe(story "The Tell-Tale Heart")
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This film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast.

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Referenced in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait (1988)

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1/10

What a drag

this film was shown as part of the NFTs Quota Quickie season.I have to say that with all the material that they have in the archives it beats me why the BFI thought this pile of rubbish was worth inflicting upon an audience.It seemed to me that the director,Brian Desmond Hurst,who went on to rather bigger and better films,had spent a lot of time watching and being influenced by German expressionist films of the 20s.In fact he seemed to be so obsessed with style that he completely forgot about the content.Also there is the problem that the actors are amateur,although this in keeping with most of the rest of the production.I have never known 49 minutes to go so slowly .I would like to give this film a big fat zero but regrettably i cannot so i have given it a 1/10 which is 1 more than it deserves.

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