Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales

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Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating 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 ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Twice-Told Tales:

Vincent Price
Sebastian Cabot
Brett Halsey
Beverly Garland
Richard Denning
Mari Blanchard

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Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating 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 the Pyncheon brother returns to his home to search for a hidden vault.

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MovieMartyr.com - 9/10 by Jeremy HeilmanTwice-Told Tales manages to retain a great deal of the literate feel of Hawthorne's work.
ESplatter - 6/10 by Steve BiodrowskiTwice Told Tales features beautiful Technicolor cinematography ... but it suffers from slow pacing and ... dull storytelling.
User Review - 10/10 by Amanda HI loved these! Vincent Price is the BOMB!
User Review - 10/10 by Michael HThe 1963 adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories into a horror anthology starring Vincent Price on the outset sounds good for a few Corman-eque laughs. However, "Twice-Told Tales" is an anthology with every segment containing its own strengths but throughout there's a lot of consistent treasures. For example: the technicolor, cinematography, set and costume designs, and the score are all gorgeous. The tales have twists, thrills, and storytelling craft and it's one the best atmospheric horror anthologies to watch for Halloween or, really, anytime.
User Review - 8/10 by Private UVincent Price in a trio of Nathaniel Hawthorne horror stories of reanimation, poison plants and an ancestral curse. A relaxed pace at two hours but entertaining nevertheless.
User Review - 8/10 by Andrea SJust like Tales of Terror, Twice-Told Tales is an entertaining trilogy of short stories, this time based on the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Still cheesy, but also still quite well-made. Great fun for genre fans.
User Review - 8/10 by katchoo _I love Vincent Price.. and I love horror anthologies.. and when the two come together............
User Review - 8/10 by Zarinah HA Corman-esque omnibus film of three Nathaniel Hawthore horror tales: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Rappaccinni's Daughter, and The House of the Seven Gables. Vincent Price stars in all three tales, and each story weaves a colorful, atmospheric tale of terror involving hautings, violations of the natural order, and reanimated corpses.
User Review - 8/10 by Aj VPrice 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.
User Review - 8/10 by Steve MTwice-Told Tales (aka "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales" and "Nights of Terror") Starring: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland, Brett Halsey, Joyce Taylor, and Mari Blanchard Director: Sidney Salkow "Twice-Told Tales" is a collection of three short films loosely based on stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. They are a nice mix of meldodrama and horror, and, although they unfold somewhat slowly (and those who think a horror movie has to have gore and violence or it not worth seeing will be bored), each tale features some great classical style acting and chilling twist endings that will keep lovers of well-done dramas entertained. Vincent Price plays the lead in two of the three segments, and he displays clearly why he was a rising leading man in Hollywood until he shifted gears career-wise and became a star of horror films. Although he is the villain in each piece, he carries himself with such an air of melancholy-tinged elegance that one can't but feel a little sympathy for the evil men he portrays. In film opens with "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment." Here, Price plays the best friend of the title character (played by Sebastian Cabot), a scientist who discovers a literal fountain of youth in the crypt of long-dead woman they both loved. The two friends regain their their youth, and even manage to resurrect their beloved Sylvia (Blanchard). Unfortuantely, turning back the hands of time also resurrects dark secrets long buried. The second story is "Rappaccini's Daughter". In it, Gionvanni (Halsey) falls in love with a mysterious beauty (Taylor) who never leaves the mansion and walled garden she shares with her father, Rappaccini (Price). It soon comes to light that Rappaccini used chemistry to turn his daughter's very touch poisonous to protect her from sin... and when it becomes clear to him that Giovanni and his daughter love each other, he takes steps to ensure they'll be together and faithful to each other forever. This is perhaps the oddest and saddest of the three tales, and while Price's character is definately a total madman in this story, he still manages to bring a sympathetic quality to Rappaccini in his performance. ' Finally, we have a [i]very[/i] loose adaptation of Hawthorne's novel "House of Seven Gables" where Gerald Pyncheon (Price) returns to his his ancestral home with his wife Alice (Garland) and awakens a restless spirit and a deadly curse. While the first two stories were tragedies with "mad science" overtones and nifty twist endings , this one is pretty much a standard haunted house story with all the various expected elements used exactly as anticipated. It's not only a fairly bad take on Hawthorne's novel, but it's also the weakest short film here, and it was one that saw me wishing for the credits to start rolling. Still, Price gives a good performance, and there's never anything wrong with watching someone as lovely as Beverly Garland, even if she is in some nicely put-together dreck. (Oh... and the model shot of the house of the title is probably one ofthe worst bit of special effects since the Alpine village in Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes.") Although it ends on a down-note, "Twice-Told Tales" is an interesting anthology film. It's a film I recommend highly to fans of Vincent Price, particularly if they've not been exposed to his pre-Corman and Castle days. He is in great form in this film.

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