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.

Director: Sidney Salkow

Cast

Vincent Price

Alex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini / Gerald Pyncheon

Sebastian Cabot

Dr. Carl Heidegger

Brett Halsey

Giovanni Guasconti

Beverly Garland

Alice Pyncheon

Richard Denning

Jonathan Maulle

Mari Blanchard

Sylvia Ward

Abraham Sofaer

Prof. Pietro Baglioni

Jacqueline deWit

Hannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister

Joyce Taylor

Beatrice Rappaccini

Edith Evanson

Lisabetta, the landlady