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The House of the Seven Gables

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

Not Rated Thriller Drama Romance

Starring: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Dick Foran

Writer: Harold Greene, Lester Cole, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Release Date:
April 12, 1940
Ratings:
6.9 / 10
Director:
Joe May
Companies:
Universal Pictures

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.