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![Twice Told Tales [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518GNRHGVYL._SL160_.jpg "Twice Told Tales [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Vincent Price
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Joyce Taylor
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Sebastian Cabot
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Brett Halsey
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Beverly Garland
Director:
Sidney Salkow
After the horror-triptych format proved a box-office winner in Tales of Terror, Twice Told Tales repeated the idea… this time not with Edgar Allan Poe stories, but the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Good idea, as Hawthorne delivered some eerie stories in his time, but the execution here is less than scintillating. The first story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," is the most entertaining of the bunch, in part because Vincent Price (the star of all three stories, natch) and Sebastian Cabot appear to be enjoying the premise: two old friends discover a Fountain of Youth elixir. This will come in handy in erasing their own wrinkles and gray hair, as well as reviving the corpse of Cabot's long-dead bride… but be careful what you wish for. The second is "Rappaccini's Daughter," with Price as an overly protective father with a novel way to keep his daughter from the sins of the flesh. It is fatally dull, and the final segment, a severe condensation of Hawthorne's novel "The House of the Seven Gables," is even more annoying, although at least it moves along a bit. The story does offer foxy scream queen Beverly Garland in her prime. Journeyman director Sidney Salkow is respons...
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![Abbott and Costello Go to Mars [VHS]](http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/video/icons/video-no-image.gif "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars [VHS]")
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Staring:
Bud Abbott
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Lou Costello
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Robert Paige
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Mari Blanchard
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Martha Hyer
Director:
Charles Lamont
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![McLintock! (Edited Version) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W95uHD8KL._SL160_.jpg "McLintock! (Edited Version) [VHS]")
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Staring:
John Wayne
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Maureen O'Hara
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Patrick Wayne
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Stefanie Powers
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Jack Kruschen
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara were born to star in "The Taming of the Shrew," and this is the closest they ever got. Wayne plays a cattle baron whose estranged wife (O'Hara) wants a divorce. The film is basically one long, funny brawl between them, ending with a mud pit melee and Wayne publicly spanking O'Hara, which doesn't look quite so politically correct anymore. This is no great shakes--director Andrew V. McLaglen is simply hosting a party here--but it's worth a few chuckles and the stars' broad performances. --Tom Keogh
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![Abbott & Costello: Go to Mars [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517PP4V8K9L._SL160_.jpg "Abbott & Costello: Go to Mars [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Bud Abbott
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Lou Costello
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Robert Paige
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Mari Blanchard
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Martha Hyer
Director:
Charles Lamont
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![Copacabana [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510YE7SQ73L._SL160_.jpg "Copacabana [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Groucho Marx
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Carmen Miranda
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Steve Cochran
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Andy Russell
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Gloria Jean
Happily, Groucho is still Groucho in his first post-Marx brothers movie, and that's enough to keep this showbiz farce going. The rather labored plot has Groucho getting his longtime fiancée, Carmen Miranda, booked at Manhattan's glamorous Copacabana club, but as two different performers: a Brazilian bombshell (the usual Carmen Miranda act, without the pineapple on the head) and a veiled French chanteuse called Mademoiselle Fifi. Some of the nightclub stuff has a retro appeal, and the appearance of real-life showbiz columnists (like Earl Wilson) brings a whiff of Sweet Smell of Success. But mostly there's Groucho, still flinging one-liners in a zone of his own. Even when the material isn't first-rate, his delivery never wavers from the withering skepticism of the Marx brothers' early days. The old greasepaint mustache comes out for one typically Marxist number, with the remainder of the songs handled by Miranda and wet-eyed crooner Andy Russell. --Robert Horton
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Staring:
Groucho Marx
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Carmen Miranda
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Steve Cochran
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Andy Russell
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Gloria Jean
Happily, Groucho is still Groucho in his first post-Marx brothers movie, and that's enough to keep this showbiz farce going. The rather labored plot has Groucho getting his longtime fiancée, Carmen Miranda, booked at Manhattan's glamorous Copacabana club, but as two different performers: a Brazilian bombshell (the usual Carmen Miranda act, without the pineapple on the head) and a veiled French chanteuse called Mademoiselle Fifi. Some of the nightclub stuff has a retro appeal, and the appearance of real-life showbiz columnists (like Earl Wilson) brings a whiff of Sweet Smell of Success. But mostly there's Groucho, still flinging one-liners in a zone of his own. Even when the material isn't first-rate, his delivery never wavers from the withering skepticism of the Marx brothers' early days. The old greasepaint mustache comes out for one typically Marxist number, with the remainder of the songs handled by Miranda and wet-eyed crooner Andy Russell. --Robert Horton
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