(D.W. Griffith, US 1916, 58 min.)

The story of a man (Henry Walthall) whose love for a young girl (Blanche Sweet) drives him to murder is actually adapted from two classic Edgar Allan Poe stories (The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum) and one great Poe poem (Annabel Lee). Pioneering filmmaker Griffith shows his technical mastery in this early horror/suspense effort, made just prior to his influential The Birth of a Nation. Preceded by one of the screen’s first gangster movies THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith, US 1912, 17 min.). Live piano by Philip C. Carli.