The Tell Tale Heart (1941 film)
The TellTale Heart is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. The screenplay by Doane R. Hoag is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.
After years of being subjected to verbal and emotional abuse by his master, a young weaver decides to murder him. Before the elderly man dies, he predicts his killer eventually will succumb to an overwhelming sense of guilt and betray himself.Shortly after the mans death, the weaver begins to hear various sounds a ticking clock, a dripping faucet, and rain falling into a metal pan outside the window that convince him he can hear his victims heart still beating beneath the floorboards where he buried him. When two deputy sheriffs appear at the house the following day, he confesses to his crime to clear his tortured conscience. ........
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