Twice Told Tales

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Vincent Price stars in this trilogy of horror based on the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The House of the Seven Gables" are all included, stories of murder, ghosts, romance and strange magical potions.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By:

Joe May, Laurence Schwab Jr, Sidney Salkow
Written By:

Lester Cole, Robert Kent
In Theaters:

Sep 1, 1963 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Aug 28, 2001
Runtime:

120 minutes
Studio:

MGM Home Entertainment

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Cast

Vincent Price
as Alex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini / Gerald Pyncheon

Sebastian Cabot
as Dr. Carl Heidigger

Mari Blanchard
as Sylvia Ward

Brett Halsey
as Giovanni Guasconti

George Sanders

Margaret Lindsay

Abraham Sofaer
as Prof. Pietro Baglioni

Eli Wallach

Joyce Taylor
as Beatrice Rappaccini

Edith Evanson
as Lisabetta

Billie Burke

Gene Lockhart

Beverly Garland
as Alice Pyncheon

Richard Denning
as Jonathan Maulle

Tom Poston

Jacqueline de Wit
as Hannah

Floyd Simmons
as Mathew

Gene Roth
as Cab Driver

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Critic Reviews for Twice Told Tales

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Offers a few genuine thrills.

Nov 15, 2008 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Twice Told Tales features beautiful Technicolor cinematography ... but it suffers from slow pacing and ... dull storytelling.

Jul 16, 2008 | Full Review…

Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter
A última história é excessivamente longa e acaba prejudicando o filme com sua falta de ritmo, mas as duas primeiras oferecem momentos que compensam uma conferida.

Apr 13, 2007 | Rating: 3/5

Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
Twice-Told Tales manages to retain a great deal of the literate feel of Hawthorne's work.

Mar 5, 2002 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

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Audience Reviews for Twice Told Tales

Vincent Price in three Nathaniel Hawthorne stories: a doctor discovers the secret of youth (and more); a student falls in love with a girl who literally kills anything she touches; a cursed man tempts fate by trying to take back an ancestral treasure from a ghost. Interesting tales, though the first two are a bit stagey and more science fiction than horror.

Greg S

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Price takes a break from doing Poe based movies, and does this anthology horror movie based on Hawthorne stories. It's good, although slightly boring once in a while. I still enjoy it, and if you like Price, you'll want to see it too.