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The Hearts of Age is a american film of genre Fantasy directed by Orson Welles released in USA on 1 january 1934 with Orson Welles

The Hearts of Age (1934)

The Hearts of Age
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Released in USA 1 january 1934
Length 8minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Fantasy,    Horror
Rating55% 2.752782.752782.752782.752782.75278

The Hearts of Age is an early film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short that he co-directed with friend William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles's first wife, Virginia Nicolson, and Welles himself. He made the film while still attending the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.

Synopsis

An elderly woman sits on a bell as it rocks back and forth, while a servant in blackface pulls at a rope. A dandified gentleman appears at the top of a stairway and doffs his hat to the lady; he smiles and courts her attention. She does not respond, but the servant hangs himself. The scene changes to an darkened interior: the gentleman sits at a grand piano and plays, but something is wrong. He opens the piano's lid and finds the woman lying inside, dead. He leafs through a number of tombstone-shaped cards with different inscriptions - "Sleeping", "At Rest", "With The Lord" - and finally chooses one that says "The End".

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