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The Avenging Conscience

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Plot
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References
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{{one source|date=March 2017}}{{Infobox film
| name = The Avenging Conscience
| image = The Avenging Conscience movie poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = D. W. Griffith
| producer = D. W. Griffith
| based on = {{based on|"The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee"|Edgar Allan Poe}}
| writer = D. W. Griffith
| narrator =
| starring = Henry B. Walthall
Blanche Sweet
Spottiswoode Aitken
| music = S. L. Rothapfel
| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer
| editing = James Smith
Rose Smith
| studio = Majestic Motion Picture Company
| distributor = Mutual Film Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1914|3|24}}
| runtime = 78 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
}}

The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a 1914 silent horror drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.^[1] The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the poem "Annabel Lee".

Plot

A young man (Henry B. Walthall) falls in love with a beautiful woman (Blanche Sweet), but is prevented by his uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken) from pursuing her. Tormented by visions of death and suffering and deciding that murder is the way of things, the young man kills his uncle and builds a wall to hide the body.

The young man's torment continues, this time caused by guilt over murdering his uncle, and he becomes sensitive to slight noises, like the tapping of a shoe or the crying of a bird. The ghost of his uncle begins appearing to him and, as he gradually loses his grip on reality, the police figure out what he has done and chase him down. In the ending sequence, we learn that the experience was all a dream and that his uncle is really alive.

Cast

Henry B. Walthall as the nephew
Blanche Sweet as his sweetheart
Spottiswoode Aitken as the uncle
George Siegmann as the Italian
Ralph Lewis as the detective
Mae Marsh as the maid
Robert Harron as the grocery boy
George Beranger
Wallace Reid - the doctor

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AvengingConscience1914.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Avenging Conscience |accessdate=2008-10-30|work=Silent Era}}

External links

{{IMDb title|0003643}}
{{Internet Archive film|TheAvengingConscience}}

{{D. W. Griffith}}{{The Tell-Tale Heart}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Avenging Conscience, The}}{{1910s-horror-film-stub}}

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