The Tell-Tale Heart (1941 film)

The Tell-Tale Heart
Film poster
Directed byJules Dassin
Written byDoane R. Hoag
Based onThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
StarringJoseph Schildkraut
Roman Bohnen
CinematographyPaul C. Vogel
Edited byAdrienne Fazan
Music bySol Kaplan
Distributed byMGM
Release date
  • October 25, 1941 (1941-10-25)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1941 American drama film, 20 minutes long, directed by Jules Dassin. The screenplay by Doane R. Hoag is based on the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.

The film marked Dassin's directorial debut after working as an assistant to Alfred Hitchcock and Garson Kanin.[1] It is typical of the short film adaptations of literary classics studios produced to precede the feature film during the 1930s and 1940s.[2]