Movie
Twice-Told Tales
Overview
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
Details
- Release date
- 1963-09-01
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Robert E. Kent Productions, United Artists
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Vincent Price as Alex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini / Gerald Pyncheon
- Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Carl Heidegger
- Brett Halsey as Giovanni Guasconti
- Beverly Garland as Alice Pyncheon
- Richard Denning as Jonathan Maulle
- Mari Blanchard as Sylvia Ward
- Abraham Sofaer as Prof. Pietro Baglioni
- Jacqueline deWit as Hannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister
- Joyce Taylor as Beatrice Rappaccini
- Edith Evanson as Lisabetta, the landlady
- Floyd Simmons as Ghost of Matthew Maulle
- Gene Roth as Cabman
Crew
- Sidney Salkow - Director
- Robert E. Kent - Writer
- Nathaniel Hawthorne - Story
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