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The Raven
6.5
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1h 20m
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1915
Overview
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.
Cast
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Henry B. Walthall
Edgar Allan Poe
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Warda Howard
Virginia Clemm / Helen Whitman / The Lost Lenore / A Spirit
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Ernest Maupain
John Allan
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Eleanor Thompson
Mrs. Allan
![Marian Skinner pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Marian Skinner
Mrs. Clemm (as Marion Skinner)
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Harry Dunkinson
Tony
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Grant Foreman
George Graham
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Hugh Thompson
David Poe Jr (as Hugh E. Thompson)
![Peggy Meredith pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Peggy Meredith
Mrs. Hopkins Poe
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Billy Robinson
Joseph Reed
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Bert Weston
Negro
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Charles Harris
Mr. Pelham (as Charles K. Harris)
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Frank Hamilton
David Poe Sr
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