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The avenging conscience, or, 'Thou shalt not kill' /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K642 | Kino InternationalK645 | Kino International | (set)Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Griffith masterworks 2Publisher: New York : Kino International, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Full-frameDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .A954 2008
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematography, G.W. Bitzer ; editor, James Smith, Rose Smith ; piano score created and performed by Martin Marks. Edgar Allen Poe: screenplay by D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods ; photographed by G.W. Bitzer ; music composed and performed by Bret Wood.
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, George Beranger, Josephine Crowell, Dorothy Gish, Donald Crisp, Walter Long, Wallace Reid. Edgar Allen Poe: Herbert Yost, Linda Arvidson.Summary: Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man turns to thoughts of murder. Experiencing a series of visions, he sees murder as a normal course of events in life and kills his uncle. Tortured by his conscience, his future sanity is uncertain as he is assailed by nightmarish visions of what he has done. Also includes Edgar Allen Poe, a biographical short on one of history's most haunting writers.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02239 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050184135

Silent film with added piano accompaniment.

Based on Tell-tale heart and Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1914.

Special features: "Edgar Allen Poe" featurette directed by D.W. Griffith (7 min., 1909); Notes on the piano score for The avenging conscience by Martin Marks.

DVD, NTSC.

Silent film with English intertitles.

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