Twice-Told Tales (The Corpse-Makers) (Nights of Terror) (1963)
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57% of critics liked it
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64% of users liked it
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This three part horror story is taken from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vincent Price stars in all three tales starting with Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) attempts to restore the youth of four elderly friends. In a ghastly and ghoulish scene, a bride in… More This three part horror story is taken from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vincent Price stars in all three tales starting with Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) attempts to restore the youth of four elderly friends. In a ghastly and ghoulish scene, a bride in her wedding gown returns to life after being dead for forty years. Although her spirit is alive, her body is ravaged by forty years of grave rot. "Rappaccini's Daughter" finds Price as a demented, overprotective father inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. Part three, "The House of the Seven Gables" has Beverly Garland, Richard Denning, and Jacqueline de Wit accompanying Price, who retains his horror hero status that alternates between villain and victim. The characters portrayed by Price are a natural continuation of the Edgar Allen Poe stories produced by Roger Cormam. Sidney Sallow directed this feature in which the cinematic apple falls far from the literary tree. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Directed By
- Sidney Salkow
- Written By
- Robert E. Kent
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Horror
- In Theaters
- Sep 1, 1963 Wide
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Offers a few genuine thrills.
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Steve Biodrowski, ESplatter
Twice Told Tales features beautiful Technicolor cinematography ... but it suffers from slow pacing and ... dull storytelling.
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Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena
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.
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Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com
Twice-Told Tales manages to retain a great deal of the literate feel of Hawthorne's work.
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Cast
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Vincent Price
as Alex Medbourne/Rappaccini/Gerald Pyncheo...
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Sebastian Cabot
as Dr. Carl Heidegger
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Mari Blanchard
as Sylvia Ward
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Brett Halsey
as Giovanni Guastconti [Rappaccini's Daught...
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Abraham Sofaer
as Prof. Pietro Baglioni [Rappaccini's Daug...
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Joyce Taylor
as Beatrice Rappaccini [Rappaccini's Daught...
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Beverly Garland
as Alice Pyncheon [The House Of The Seven G...
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Richard Denning
as Jonathan Maulle [The House Of The Seven ...
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Jacqueline de Wit
as Hannah [The House Of The Seven Gables]
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Edith Evanson
as Lisabetta [Rappaccini's Daughter]
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Gene Roth
as Cab Driver [The House Of The Seven Gable...
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Floyd Simmons
as Mathew [The House Of The Seven Gables]
