Twice-Told Tales
1963 · Movie · NR · 120 min · ★ 6.3 · 61% critics
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.
Based on Twice-Told Tales
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Details
- Years
- 1963
- Release date
- 1963-09-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (79 votes)
Themes
- experiment
- based on novel or book
- poison
- haunted house
- anthology
- friends
- curse
- mad doctor
- tomb
- family curse
Cast & crew
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
Directed by Sidney Salkow