The House of the Seven Gables

Apr 12, 1940

1h 29m

★ 6.9

AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!

Overview

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Jaffrey Pyncheon

George Sanders

Hepzibah Pyncheon

Margaret Lindsay

Clifford Pyncheon

Vincent Price

Phoebe Pyncheon

Nan Grey

Matthew Maule

Dick Foran

Philip Barton

Cecil Kellaway

Fuller

Alan Napier

Gerald Pyncheon

Gilbert Emery

Deacon Arnold Foster

Miles Mander

Judge

Charles Trowbridge

Blacksmith Hawkins

Harry Cording

Ex-Convict

Michael Mark

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