The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film)
:"For the 1928 Jean Epstein version of Fall of the House of Usher, see La Chute de la maison Usher"
Infobox Film
name = The Fall of the House of Usher
caption =
director = James Sibley Watson Melville Webber
producer =
writer = Edgar Allan Poe
starring = Herbert Stern Hildegarde Watson Melville Webber
music =
cinematography = James Sibley Watson Melville Webber
editing =
distributor =
released =
runtime = 13 min.
country = USA
language = Silent film
English intertitles
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:153492
imdb_id = 0018873
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a 1928 short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse. It stars Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson and Melville Webber.
The movie was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.
Production
A very Avant-garde experimental film, Watson and Webber based their interpretation on a 1925 version of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Charles F. Klein. (This latter film is now considered a lost film.) The visual element dominates the film, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion. [Smith, Don G. "The Poe Cinema: A Critical Filmography". McFarland & Company, 1999. p. 57-8 ISBN 078641703X] There is no dialogue, though one part features letters moving across the screen.
Influence
In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant film" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
References
ee Also
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External Links
* [http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-6781824702174647019&q=The+Fall+of+the+House+of+Usher Completed film at Google]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018873/ "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Watson and Webber, 1928) at IMDB]
*Both Epstein and Webber versions available at archive.org [http://www.archive.org/details/FallOfTheHouseOfUsher1928short] [http://www.archive.org/details/FalloftheHouseofUsher1928Chute]
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