THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE.
OR, "THOU SHALT NOT KILL."
. To-morrow evening (Thursday) the management of His Majesty's Theatre will screen a picture play which is said to bo quite different to any yet seen. It is by D. W. Griffith, des■eribeefas the greatest picture director in the world. "Thou Shalt Not Kill, ■ or, "The Avenging Conscience," is a drama of the mind, completely visualised throughout, and with a thoroughly connected story. Though it deals with the penance inflicted upon a murderer by his own conscience, this penance is so personified that the result is a very graphic narrative. This is broughtabout by the use of some extraordinary photographic eifects, which show the dead man returning to haunt the living murderer, who imagines, among other things, that he can hear the heart of tho dead man still beating. <;Thou Shalt Not Kill" was suggested by Edgar Allan Poe'es famous story, '' The 'Telltale Heart" (which contains the idea of.the murderer listening to the heart-beats of the man he killed), and by Poe's famous poem of " Annabel Lee." .. . ■ -
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20432, 11 August 1915, Page 8
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174THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20432, 11 August 1915, Page 8
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