The Raven

The Raven (1915)

After a brief view of Edgar Allan Poe's family background, his grandfather, David Poe, Sr., an Irish immigrant to America, and his father, David Poe, Jr., the poet's life is depicted from the death of his mother and his subsequent adoption by John Allan, to his own tortured death in 1849. Expelled from the University of Virginia for incurring too many debts, Poe nonetheless courts and marries Virginia Clemm but is disowned by his foster father. While residing in Fordham, New York, Poe tries to earn a living as a writer but meets with little financial success. Overwhelmed by their impoverished state, Virginia dies and Poe sinks into a profound depression. Always a victim of alcohol and subject to hallucinations, Poe first imagines that his neighbor, Helen Whitman, is Virginia, then plunges himself into an elaborate delusion in which his wife's spirit, various other spectres and a raven finally drive him to his own death.

Data de estreia
1915-11-08
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (6)
Duração
1 h 20 min
Géneros
Drama, Terror, Fantasia
Realizador
Charles Brabin

Elenco

Curiosidades

The Raven é um filme mudo americano de 1915, do gênero drama biográfico, escrito e dirigido por Charles Brabin, com roteiro baseado no romance biográfico The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe, de George Cochrane Hazelton e em sua peça teatral homônima.

Produção

Henry B. Walthall recebeu o papel principal de Edgar Allan Poe, depois de interpretar o mesmo autor em The Avenging Conscience, de D. W. Griffith, em 1914. Por causa do papel repetido, ele foi apelidado de "a imagem de Poe".

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