The House of the Seven Gables
1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
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.
Direction Joe May
Cast George Sanders · Margaret Lindsay · Vincent Price · Dick Foran · Nan Grey · Cecil Kellaway · Alan Napier · Gilbert Emery · Miles Mander · Charles Trowbridge
Soundtrack Frank Skinner
Screenplay Lester Cole · Harold R. Greene · Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Original title The House of the Seven Gables
6.2
74 votes (FilmAffinity)
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