The Tell-Tale Heart (1953 British film)

A murderer hides his victim's body under the floorboards. He thinks he has got away with the crime, but haunted by the incessant sound of the dead man's heartbeats, is driven to confess. ==Cast==

• Stanley Baker as Edgar Allan Poe == Reception ==

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: This is scarcely a film, but rather a virtuoso performance by Stanley Baker, reading and acting the story, with the accompaniment of the sound of heart-beats. Good photography and lighting are marred by the frequent interpolation of shots of the moon with clouds scudding across it, while the fixed 'moonlight' of the interior set is never affected by these phenomena. The film, which hardly justifies its 'H' London Certificate, is essentially theatrical, with a good theatrical performance by Stanley Baker." == References ==