Blu-ray Review Twice-Told Tales (Kino re-release) – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

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One of the giants of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works have been plum material for cinematic adaptation. His novel The Scarlet Letter has been adapted 11 times so far (most notably the Lillian Gish starring vehicle by Victor Sjöström for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1926 and infamously by Roland Joffé for the now defunct Hollywood Pictures in 1995) and his Gothic The House of Seven Gables got a memorable (and Oscar-nominated) adaptation in 1940 with Vincent Price in the cast. 23 years later, the latter story was joined with two other Hawthorne works – and Price returned to appear in all three stories – to create United Artists’ attempt to cash in on the success of AIP’s cycle of Edgar Allan Poe movies, Twice-Told Tales. Previously released on Blu-ray – through a licensing deal with MGM – in 2015 by Kino (HTF’s own Matt Hough reviewed that release...

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[Wayne Klein]

Nice to see this reissued. I always enjoyed this underrated gem.