The Avenging Conscience
AKA Thou Shalt Not Kill in the United Kingdom
(1914) American
B&W : [?] Seven or Eight? reels
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, George A. Beranger (André Beranger)

Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation; on State Rights basis by Western Import Company. / Produced by D.W. Griffith. Scenario by D.W. Griffith, from the story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. / Preview 16 July 1914 in Pasadena, California. Premiere 2 August 1914 at the Strand Theatre in New York, New York. Released 24 August 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: The Murderer’s Conscience. The film was distributed in the USA on State Rights basis by Western Import Company late in 1914.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0184.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder

Listing updated: 29 March 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0184; Bardèche-History p. 132; Barry-Griffith pp. 19, 45-46; Bohn-Light p. 53; Brownlow-Parade p. 46; Drew-Speaking pp. 224-225, 286; Everson-American pp. 74, 77, 369; Fell-History pp. 56, 64; Limbacher-Feature p. 13; Mottram-Danish pp. 113, 116; Shipman-Cinema pp. 52, 54; Sinyard-Silent p. 22; Slide-FineArts p. 2; Tarbox-Lost p. 180; Weaver-Twenty p. 28.