In the film, "The Pale Blue Eye," a detective investigates a series of murders linked to his own past alongside a young Edgar Allan Poe. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Harry Melling, who plays Poe.

Harry Melling has revealed he spent a lot of time watching the work of silent cinema legend Buster Keaton before taking on the role of Edgar Allan Poe in Netflix thriller The Pale Blue Eye.

When one thinks of Edgar Allan Poe, words like “charming” and “fun” don’t immediately come to mind. And that’s precisely why actor Harry Melling ... version of the story, which is ...

Edgar Allan Poe ... several homicides and the British Harry Melling playing America’s most beloved poet of darkness. Poe, a pioneer of the short story, is also credited with inventing the ...

Christian Bale stars as a seasoned 19th-century detective named Augustus Landor (played by Christian Bale) who teams up with a young and eager Edgar Allan Poe (played by Harry Melling) to ...

Edgar Allan Poe. Coming off 2021’s “Antlers” — Cooper’s folk-horror tale adapted from a Nick Antosca short story about monsters, real and imagined — “Blue Eye” feels like the ideal ...

The fictional film tells the story of a former ... than young cadet Poe, portrayed by Harry Melling. ‘The Pale Blue Eye’: A 19th-century whodunit — with Edgar Allan Poe Based on the 2003 ...

Co-star Harry Melling plays an eccentric student with literary sensibilities unwelcome at the rigid military academy: a young and fictionalized Edgar Allan ... story.” Bale perceived Poe and ...

It stars Christian Bale as Detective Landor, and Poe is played by Harry Melling ... What do you think, in the story, Detective Landor sees in Edgar - young Edgar Allan Poe? MELLING: Well, I ...