Twice-Told Tales

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.

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

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