Their 1960 “Tell-Tale” looks like a slick and decently-budgeted TV adaptation - elaborately decorated mid-19th century interiors, a few decent backlot exteriors and actors filmed in tense closeups and tight, TV-framed group compositions. As TV directors, especially of that era, knew how to make something “intimate” without that first person narration, he and screenwriters Brian Clemens and Eldon Howard thought they’d take a shot. IMDb lists 25 screen versions of the Poe short story - features, TV productions and shorts - and the most unusual may be the one the deviates from Poe the most.īritish director Ernest Morris is best-known for being behind the camera for several long-running British TV series, the most famous being the Roger Moore version of “The Saint” that ran for most of the 1960s.
It’s something you don’t abandon lightly, as it has been key to many a dramatic reading (James Mason, et al), radio production (starring Orson Welles, Don Ameche, Fred Gwynne and others) and stage and screen adaptation. The first-person narration of a killer patiently plotting his “perfect crime,” pitilessly committing it and then going mad by the pounding of “The Tell-Tale Heart” of his long-dead victim is the most sinister component of Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece.
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