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The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a 1914 silent horror film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film is based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and his 1849 poem "Annabel Lee".
The Avenging Conscience ou Thou Shalt Not Kill é um filme mudo do gênero dramático estadunidense em curta-metragem, escrito e dirigido por D. W. Griffith em 1914. [1] O filme é baseado no conto Tell Tale Heart , de Edgar Allan Poe e o poema Annabel Lee .
The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill': Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann. Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- D.W. Griffith
- 1914-08-24
5 de dez. de 2020 · The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'. by. D.W. Griffith. Publication date. 1914-08-24. Language. English. Actor. Henry B. Walthall.
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The Avenging Conscience was directed by D.W. Griffith in 1914. It is 50 minutes long, a step in Griffith's progressive move into feature films.
The criminal haunted by tortures of the mind. Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man’s thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body.
A close analysis of the cinematic structure of The Avenging Conscience proves that it is, indeed, one of Griffith's most important silent films, in many ways superior to both The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. It is the first, and probably the only, Griffith feature in which cinematic language is used to convey stream of consciousness,
