Edgar Allan Poe Articles

The Raven (1915) Direction: Charles Brabin Screenplay: Charles Brabin; from George Cochran Hazelton's novel and play The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard   Starring Henry B. Walthall, The Raven is an Essanay feature depicting the life of Edgar Allan Poe, starting with his childhood and going all the way to his marriage to his cousin (played [...]

It may not have been terribly original of Kino to include in their 2005 Griffith Masterworks boxed set the only four D.W. Griffith features that most people could name (let alone claim to have seen), but it would have been downright perverse to pass over The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, and Orphans of the Storm (the fifth and sixth discs were made [...]