The Avenging Conscience (The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill') (1914)

7	Listal rating
7	IMDB rating

Drama (3), Edgar Allan Poe (2), Horror (2), Silent (2), Spiritual Cinema (1), Psychotronic (1), 1914 (1), Dreaming (1), MMG (1), Adaptation (1), Classic (1), Illness (1), Mind (1)

Description

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man turns to thoughts of murder. Experiencing a series of visions, he sees murder as a normal course of events in life and kills his uncle. Tortured by his conscience, his future sanity is uncertain as he is assailed by nightmarish visions of what he has done.

Directed by

D.W. Griffith

Starring (View all) :

The Nephew

The Uncle

His Sweetheart

The Italian

The Detective

The Maid

The Grocery Boy

Sweetheart's Mother

Sweetheart's Mother

Written by (View all) :

Edgar Allan Poe

D.W. Griffith

(writer)

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