The Raven
The Raven

The Raven

6.5

1 hr 20 min

1915-11-08

6

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.

Drama

Horror

Fantasy

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Characters

Henry B. Walthall

Henry B. Walthall

Edgar Allan Poe

Warda Howard

Warda Howard

Virginia Clemm / Helen Whitman / The Lost Lenore / A Spirit

Ernest Maupain

Ernest Maupain

John Allan

Eleanor Thompson

Eleanor Thompson

Mrs. Allan

Marian Skinner

Marian Skinner

Mrs. Clemm (as Marion Skinner)

Harry Dunkinson

Harry Dunkinson

Tony

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