Themes: Ghosts, Fathers and Daughters, Supernatural Romance
Main Cast: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Mari Blanchard, Brett Halsey, Richard Denning
Release Year: 1963
Country: US
Run Time: 120 minutes
Plot
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, All Movie Guide
Cast
Vincent Price - Alex Medbourne/Rappaccini/Gerald Pyncheon
Brett Halsey - Giovanni Guastconti [Rappaccini's Daughter]
Richard Denning - Jonathan Maulle [The House Of The Seven Gables]
Abraham Sofaer - Prof. Pietro Baglioni [Rappaccini's Daughter]; Joyce Taylor - Beatrice Rappaccini [Rappaccini's Daughter]; Beverly Garland - Alice Pyncheon [The House Of The Seven Gables]; Jacqueline De Wit - Hannah [The House Of The Seven Gables]; Edith Evanson - Lisabetta [Rappaccini's Daughter]; Gene Roth - Cab Driver [The House Of The Seven Gables]; Floyd Simmons - Mathew [The House Of The Seven Gables]
Credit
Franz Bachelin - Art Director, Marjorie D. Corso - Costume Designer, Tommy Welsh - Costume Designer, Sidney Salkow - Director, Grant Whytock - Editor, Dick LaSalle - Composer (Music Score), Gene Hibbs - Makeup, Ellis W. Carter - Cinematographer, Robert Kent - Producer, Charles Thompson - Set Designer, Milt Olsen - Special Effects, Robert Kent - Screenwriter, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Book Author
