The Pit and the Pendulum is a three-reel film adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name, directed, and produced by pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché through her American company Solax Studios in 1913.

The first reel begins with a young and pretty girl named Isabelle (played by Blanche Cornwall) sitting upon a hill.

The New York Dramatic Mirror was one of the many publications that took issue with the film: "There are terrible details in plenty, such as showing rats crawling over the body of a man strapped to a plank that should cause shudder quite as effectually as even's Poe's descriptions".

[3] Moving Picture World said "the sets are remarkably realistic and this is especially true of the dungeon filled monastery, into which the luckless hero is dragged and in which, before he is released, he is tortured with fiendish ingenuity.

[4] The film was initially believed to be completely lost to time; however, there is one surviving reel at the Library of Congress.