THE TALE-TELL HEART (1953)
Directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason, THE TELL TALE HEART is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
In 2001 the US Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry
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GREAT POST, Ana! LOVE THAT STORY even if it scared me to death when I first read it as a teenager.
ReplyDeleteRIBEIRANS!!! Do you remember we read this story the first year I was teaching in Ribeira? I think you hated my guts for that... I remember the complaints about the complex syntax, difficult vocabulary... but wasn't it worth reading? Say YES!
And for some reason I have always associated this story about the old man and his "vulture eye" with Castelao's "Un ollo de vidro. Memorias dun esquelete"... Maybe because of the obsession with the glass eye, since "aquel ollo de vidro que de nada me servira na vida sírveme agora pra mirar".
ReplyDeleteIn the movie (and in fact, also in the book) We Need to Talk about Kevin, the glass eye is an important motif too.
Oh, yes! I can remember our landing in Adv1 when you gave us the story, we really hated your guts. But I admit it was worthwhile (I mean the story).
ReplyDeleteAnd Kevin is scarier than the old man.