Twice Told Tales (1963)
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We have 3 skits based on Nathaniel Hawthorne stories.
1) Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment – The good Doctor thinks he’s discovered the serum to youth when he finds his dead wife looking like she never aged a bit. He decides the water seeping in her tomb carries the special life of the Gods and so decides to give her more and wakes her up. But Alex poisoned her years ago and will do anything to have Carl’s dead wife for himself… 2) Rappaccini's Daughter – Beatrice is a daughter enslaved by her father. Rappucini loves his child so much he has poisoned to her to such an extent that she kills anything she touches. Now she has found a suitor who will do anything to save her or to hurt himself in the process. 3) House of the Seven Gables – Gerald Pyncheon is trying to survive a hundred year old curse on his family, placed there by the Maule Family whose one ancestor was an architect for the Pyncheon house but fell in love with the wrong woman (a Pyncheon) was condemned for witchcraft. Enough bad blood over the years and Gerald is the only one left. But Jonathan Maule isn’t about to just give up because 100 years has passed, no way. He has some tricks on his sleeve for preventing Gerald from succeeding in finding the buried treasure… Overall: Well when it all comes down to it, as good as Vincent Price is, Nathaniel Hawthorne was better. The novels are better than what this film put together but the film isn’t half-bad. Some neat stuff but I do think it would have been better for Price to be in 1 skit, not all 3. It can confuse the viewer. If you have a chance, read the stories. |
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