Film Record: Pit and the Pendulum, The

Still image from the film pictured in the PSA Journal, Oct. 1961, 48.

Date produced: 1961

Filmmaker(s):

Murray Cowel

Languages:

English

Length:

350 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Magnetic

Awards/Recognition:

PSA Ten Best 1961

Description:

"We have the creation of an audiovisual of Edgar Allen Poe's classic. Mr. Cowel's picture interpretation gives the dimension of life to Mr. Poe's terrifying drama. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition at Toledo, in a dark dungeon, describes his horrible tortures" PSA Journal, Oct. 1961, 48.

Subjects:

• Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Genre:

• Adaptation

Form:

• Short

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