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Cartoon Summary:

A dark adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a man who is haunted by the beating heart of the man whom he has murdered.

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This film was originally released in 3-D. This was the first cartoon to be X-rated (adults only) in Great Britain under the British Board of Film Censors classification system; the first British...  (more)

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Comments By: ajperrin

I saw this film at a news-theatre cinema in the west end of London in 1955 and it has been engraved on memory ever since. I was 17 at the time and it scared me witless! The cinema had a good sound system, and that combined with a heady perfume in...  (read more)

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Comments By: JasC

Several art schools dot the Hollywood/Los Angeles area, and the UPA movement attracted many students to any of the films they produced during the fifties.

UPA's "Tell-Tale Heart" was an animated short (not considered a cartoon in...  (read more)

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The Tell-Tale Heart

Comments By: damfine

One of UPA's best and most terrifying films.

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