The Raven (1915) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1915 · 80 mins

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Directed by

Charles Brabin

Starring

Hugh Thompson, Henry B. Walthall, Charles Harris, Frank Hamilton, Marian Skinner, Warda Howard

The film follows Edgar Allan Poe’s turbulent life: orphaned early, adopted by John Allan, expelled for debts, he courts and marries his cousin Virginia Clemm, is disowned, struggles as a writer in New York, loses Virginia to illness, succumbs to alcoholism and haunting hallucinations, and dies after a delusional obsession with spectres, a raven and his wife’s spirit.