![]() ![]() I have not been able to ascertain which of these were released first, making the two of them the first film versions of the Edgar Allan Poe tale, although there had already been more than twenty film versions of other Poe stories made throughout the silent era before this. Coming out the same year was also a twelve-minute long version made in England by directors James Sibbley Watson and Melville Webber, which stands at 180 degrees remove from this version and is a highly experimental work influenced by The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) that treats the Poe story in a loose, abstract way. (See below for the other film versions of The Fall of the House of Usher). This was one of two film versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) that were released in 1928. ![]()
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