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Twice-Told Tales (1963)

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.

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Top billed cast

Vincent PriceAlex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini / Gerald Pyncheon
Sebastian CabotDr. Carl Heidegger
Brett HalseyGiovanni Guasconti
Beverly GarlandAlice Pyncheon
Richard DenningJonathan Maulle
Mari BlanchardSylvia Ward
Abraham SofaerProf. Pietro Baglioni
Jacqueline deWitHannah Pyncheon, Gerald's Sister
Joyce TaylorBeatrice Rappaccini
Edith EvansonLisabetta, the landlady

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