The Fall of the House of Usher (1950)

Directors

Ivan Barnett

Cast

Gwendoline Watford, Kaye Tendeter, Irving Steen, Vernon Charles

The story

The film uses a framing device set in a gentlemen's club where one of the members reads to his friends from a copy of Poe's book. A century before, a young man visits a bleak-looking mansion in the English countryside where his friend Lord Roderick Usher lives with his sister Lady Madeline. They are both mysteriously ill and he discovers that they are suffering from a curse caused by their father which will lead to them both dying shortly, resulting in the downfall and end of the ancient family of Usher.

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