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The Avenging Conscience is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 2 august 1914 with Henry B. Walthall

The Avenging Conscience (1914)

The Avenging Conscience ou Thou Shalt Not Kill

The Avenging Conscience
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Released in USA 2 august 1914
Length 1h18
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Horror
Rating63% 3.195733.195733.195733.195733.19573

The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1914) is a drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the poem "Annabel Lee".

Synopsis

A young man (Henry B. Walthall) falls in love with a beautiful woman (Blanche Sweet), but is prevented by his uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken) from pursuing her. Tormented by visions of death and suffering and deciding that murder is the way of things, the young man kills his uncle and builds a wall to hide the body.

Actors

Henry B. Walthall

(The Nephew)Blanche Sweet

(The Sweetheart)Spottiswoode Aitken

(The Uncle)George Siegmann

(The Italian)Ralph Lewis

(The Detective)
And :
Mae Marsh
Robert Harron
George Beranger
Dorothy Gish
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