The Fall Of The House Of Usher By EdgarAllen Poe

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1975

Creator: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA EDUC. (FILM

Format: 16mm

Description: A dramatization of Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic horror tale. Setting is a remote, desolate landscape, dominated by a bleak and mysterious mansion. The narrator of the story enters the house to visit his friend, Roderick Usher, and his twin sister, Lady Madeline Usher, who is very ill. After Madeline's death, Roderick becomes more erratic and obsessive and, during a dark and stormy night, Madeline escapes from her tomb, appears at the doorway and falls upon her brother. Horrified, the narrator flees the house in time to witness its final collapse.

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