The Tell-Tale Heart

Year: 1941

Runtime: 20 mins

Language: English

Director: Jules Dassin

HorrorCrime

In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim’s beating heart torments the murderer’s mind.

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