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The House of the Seven Gables
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The House of the Seven Gables

Apr 12, 1940
1h 29m
★ 7.0

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
Romance

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Cast

George Sanders

Jaffrey Pyncheon

George Sanders

Margaret Lindsay

Hepzibah Pyncheon

Margaret Lindsay

Vincent Price

Clifford Pyncheon

Vincent Price

Nan Grey

Phoebe Pyncheon

Nan Grey

Dick Foran

Matthew Maule

Dick Foran

Cecil Kellaway

Philip Barton

Cecil Kellaway

Alan Napier

Fuller

Alan Napier

Gilbert Emery

Gerald Pyncheon

Gilbert Emery

Miles Mander

Deacon Arnold Foster

Miles Mander

Charles Trowbridge

Judge

Charles Trowbridge

Harry Cording

Blacksmith Hawkins

Harry Cording

Michael Mark

Ex-Convict

Michael Mark

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