The Avenging Conscience
by D.W. Griffith
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Actor: George Siegmann, Spottiswoode Aitken, Wal Henry B.Director: D.W. Griffith
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Movie Reviews of The Avenging Conscience
Movie Review: not overly exciting
Summary: 2 Stars
and actually pretty boring in places. Some scenes go on way too long, and others are short and choppy. Sometimes you wonder what a particular scene is doing in the film at all (exotic dancers, bunnies????). Seems to always be a wind blowing across the sets, as drapes and papers are moving, the bird cage is constantly twirling. Falls far short of its billing as "The First Great American Horror Film." Very disappointed in this one; does a disservice to Poe. If you want to see early psychological terror, check out the German Expressionism films of the early 1920s.
Summary of The Avenging Conscience
INCLUDES THE 1909 SHORT EDGAR ALLAN POED.W. Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in this ambitious amalgam of the writer s poetry and prose: Annabel Lee and The Tell-Tale Heart, flavored with shades of The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, and The Conqueror Worm. Poe s tales are interwoven in one tragedy-laden narrative of a young man (Henry B. Walthall) who yearns to escape from his overbearing, one-eyed uncle (Spottiswoode Aitken). After the nephew murders the ogre, he and his lover (Blanche Sweet) are wracked by guilt and tormented by nightmares, ghosts, and demonic entities that drive them to even more horrifying extremes. Just as Poe cloaked his horrors in artful poetry and prose, so does Griffith filter the story s macabre elements through a Victorian lens, gilding it with quaint symbolism without diminishing its impact. When asked, in 1925, to rank the cinema s greatest achievements, critic Gilbert Seldes called special attention to this film. The picture was projected in a palpable atmosphere, he wrote in his book The Seven Lively Arts, After ten years I recall dark masses and ghostly rays of light.
- Mastered in HD from a 35mm archive print from the Raymond Rohauer Collection
- Piano score compiled and performed by music historian Martin Marks (2.0 Stereo)
- Griffith 1909 short (Edgar Allen Poe) mastered in HD from a 35mm archive print from the Museum of Modern Art
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