The Tell-Tale Heart (movie)
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The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 animated short film which retells the Edgar Allan Poe story of a man who is haunted by the beating heart of the man he has murdered. It stars the voices of Stanley Baker and James Mason.
The movie was adapted by Fred Gable and Bill Scott and directed by Art Babbitt and Ted Parmelee.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.