The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)

Directors

Jules Dassin

Cast

Joseph Schildkraut, Oscar O'Shea, Roman Bohnen

The story

After years' subjection to verbal and emotional abuse by his master, a young weaver decides to murder him. Before the elderly man dies, he predicts his killer eventually will succumb to an overwhelming sense of guilt and betray himself. Shortly after the man's death, the weaver begins to hear various sounds - a ticking clock, a dripping faucet, and rain falling into a metal pan outside the window - that convince him he can hear his victim's heart still beating beneath the floorboards where he buried him.

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