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The Tell-Tale Heart is a British film of genre Thriller released in USA on 7 february 1962 with Laurence Payne
The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
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Add to a movie listThe Tell-Tale Heart is a 1960 British horror film directed by Ernest Morris produced by The Danzigers. The screenplay by Brian Clemens and Eldon Howard is a loose adaptation of the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Edgar Marsh, a shy librarian obsessed with erotica, becomes infatuated with his neighbor Betty Clare when he sees her undressing in her bedroom. He invites her to dinner, and although she clearly is uncomfortable with the attention he pays her, he showers her with jewelry and fantasizes about their future. Complications arise when he introduces her to his friend Carl Loomis, whom Betty finds far more attractive and appealing. In order to eliminate the competition, Edgar bludgeons Carl to death with a poker and buries him beneath the floorboards in his piano room. His overwhelming guilt leads him to believe a ticking metronome and the incessant dripping of a faucet actually are the sound of his victim's heart still beating.Actors
Laurence Payne
(Edgar Marsh)
Adrienne Corri
(Betty Clare)
Dermot Walsh
(Carl Loomis)
Brian Cobby
David L. Lander
(Jeweller)
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