On this day in movie history - The Tell-Tale Heart a.k.a. Bucket of Blood (1934 movie & book):

The Tell-Tale Heart
a.k.a. Bucket of Blood

directed by Brian Desmond Hurst,

written by David Plunket Greene,

based on the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,

released in the United States on June 14, 1934.

Music by John Reynders, Harry Sheridan.

Cast: Norman Dryden, John Kelt, Yolande Terrell, Thomas Shenton, James Fleck, Colonel Cameron, Tom Shenton, H. Vasher.

Recommended reading:

The Complete Stories and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe.

First published 1849.

This edition published 1966.

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Hardcover.

ISBN 13: 9780385074070

ISBN 10: 0385074077

ASIN: 0385074077

Description:

This single volume brings together all of Poe’s stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.