The Fall of the House of Usher (1950)
- Directed by
- Ivan Barnett
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man visits his childhood friend at a crumbling ancestral home. The house is decaying and a strange illness plagues the family.
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What happens
The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1950 British second feature ('B') horror film directed by Ivan Barnett and starring Gwen Watford in her film debut, Kaye Tendeter and Irving Steen. The screenplay was by Dorothy Catt and Kenneth Thompson, adapted from the 1839 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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