A retired detective and a young Edgar Allan Poe team up to investigate serial killings in a Scott Cooper film that…
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Cast
Christian Bale (Augustus Landor)Harry Melling (Cadet Edgar Allan Poe)Simon McBurney (Captain Hitchcock)Timothy Spall (Superintendent Thayer)Toby Jones (Dr. Daniel Marquis)Harry Lawtey (Cadet Artemus Marquis)Fred Hechinger (Cadet Randolph Ballinger)Joey Brooks (Cadet Stoddard)Charlotte Gainsbourg (Patsy)Lucy Boynton (Lea Marquis)Robert Duvall (Jean Pepe)Gillian Anderson (Mrs. Julia Marquis)Steven Maier (Cadet Fry)Brennan Keel Cook (Cadet Huntoon)Orlagh Cassidy (Mrs. Fry)Scott Anderson (Benny)Gideon Glick (Cadet Horatio Cochrane)Jack Irv (Cadet Hamilton)
Director
Scott Cooper
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Synopsis
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
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