The Tell-Tale Hearth Film

People might think, that the old Tell-Tale Hearth movie would be pretty much the same story as in the short story by Edger Allan Poe a hundred years before. But is that assumptions true, or did the director change something?

To begin with, the movie starts with the main protagonist working in the rooms of his older employer, who comes home and slaps the main protagonist, because the young men complaint about how he was treated. Meanwhile, the short story starts with the protagonist telling the audience what he had done.

Another interesting fact is, that the movie predetermines a specific setting where the protagonist is some sort of a slave of the older men. In the short story we do not have something like that, which shifts the theme of