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Twice-Told Tales. Available on Philo, Prime Video, iTunes. 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.
Robert E. Kent. Writer. 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.
Mar 18, 2005 · Twice-Told Tales takes its title from Hawthorne’s 1837 short story collection of the same name. The film clearly came about as a result of the success that Roger Corman had with his series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, beginning with The House of Usher (1960). The filmmakers turn to another writer of American Gothic and set the film in the ...
Evidently an attempt to cash in on the-then hugely popular Corman/Poe films, Twice-Told Tales sadly doesn't match the impressive heights of those efforts. Price is, bar the final story, not entirely on top form, the cinematography lacks the lustre of Floyd Crosby's superb work and the film elongates the narratives of each section to what feels ...
The title Twice-Told Tales was based on a line from William Shakespeare's King John (Act 3, scene 4): "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." The quote referenced may also be Hawthorne's way of acknowledging a belief that many of his stories were ironic retellings of familiar tropes.
With Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey, Beverly Garland. Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father ...
The idiom “a twice-told tale” originates from Act 1, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s play King John, written in the late 16th century. In this scene, Philip the Bastard, a cynical and outspoken character, speaks the line “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.”. He delivers this line while expressing his dissatisfaction with the ...
