The title "The Tell-Tale Heart" here makes it already obvious that here we have another version of the famous Edgar Allen Poe story. It runs for 20 minutes and is in black-and-white because it is from the days of World War II and by now already over 75 years old. The director is Jules Dassin and this was his first career effort a long time before his 2 Oscar nominations. Lead actor Joseph Schildkraut, however, already had an Oscar when he played the main character here. Funnily enough he is older playing the Young Man than the actor playing the Old Man. This is the story of a worker who gets humiliated again and again by his master and one day he won't take it anymore and kills him. However, his decency backfires when guilt gets the better of him as he keeps hearing the old man's heart pounding and slowly goes insane. No word really on the two detectives as they added virtually nothing. It's all about Schildkraut. But the film was a bit too theatrical at times for my taste, also the line delivery, and I think this could have been told with better focus in 12 minutes too, so it had a length here and there. It is overall not my favorite from Poe, also not the way it was depicted here and that's why I give this third of an hour a thumbs-down. Not recommended.