The House of the Seven Gables
1940
AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
Directed by Joe May
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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.
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- Director
- Joe May
- Written by
- Harold Greene, Lester Cole, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Produced by
- Burt Kelly
- Cinematographer
- Milton Krasner
- Editor
- Frank Gross
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Language
- en
- TMDB
- 6.9/10 (30 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 80% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 54/100
- IMDb
- 7.0/10 (1,527 votes)
Cast
George Sanders
Jaffrey Pyncheon
Margaret Lindsay
Hepzibah Pyncheon
Vincent Price
Clifford Pyncheon
Nan Grey
Phoebe Pyncheon
Dick Foran
Matthew Maule
Cecil Kellaway
Philip Barton
Alan Napier
Fuller
Gilbert Emery
Gerald Pyncheon
Miles Mander
Deacon Arnold Foster
Charles Trowbridge
Judge
Harry Cording
Blacksmith Hawkins
Hal Budlong
Driver
Caroline Frances Cooke
Town Gossip
Kernan Cripps
Workman
Robert Dudley
Jury Foreman
Martin Faust
Town Gossip
Margaret Fealy
Town Gossip
Sibyl Harris
Mrs. Foster
