# The Avenging Conscience or Thou Shalt Not Kill 1914 Edgar Allan Poe D W Griffith

Directed by D.W. Grifith & based upon two works by Edgar Allan Poe: The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the poem "Annabel Lee". 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. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003643

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1914
- Runtime: 1 h 24 min
- By: D. W. Griffith
- Genres: Horror, Silent
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Avenging_Conscience_or_Thou_Shalt_Not_Kill_1914_Edgar_Allan_Poe_D_W_Griffith.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: D. W. Griffith
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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