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The Fall of the House of Usher (French: La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French horror film directed by Jean Epstein, one of several films based on the 1839 Gothic short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Fall of the House of Usher: Directed by Jean Epstein. With Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard. Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Jean Epstein
- 1928-10-05
A traveller arrives at the desolate Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline continues to get weaker with time.
La Chute de la maison Usher is a 1928 silent French horror film directed by Jean Epstein starring Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, and Charles Lamy. A second silent film version, also released in 1928, was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- 1839
Oct 30, 2004 · Overview. A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife Madeleine. When she dies, Roderick does not accept her death, and in the dark night, Madeleine returns.
Mar 3, 2002 · The great hall in Jean Epstein's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is one of the most haunting spaces in the movies. Its floor is a vast marble expanse, interrupted here and there by an item of furniture that seems dwarfed by the surrounding emptiness. An odd staircase rises from one distant corner. It is not impossible that this vision, in one ...
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Before that evolution, however, Epstein filmed this adaptation of two Edgar Allan Poe stories: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) and "The Oval Portrait" (1850). The film's significance lies not so much in its fidelity to Poe's stories as in its atmospheric evocation of the author's gothic sensibility.
