The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

7.0/10 89 min Thriller Drama Romance

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.

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

Michael Mark

Ex-Convict

Caroline Frances Cooke

Town Gossip

Kernan Cripps

Workman

Robert Dudley

Jury Foreman

Martin Faust

Town Gossip

Margaret Fealy

Town Gossip

Sibyl Harris

Mrs. Foster

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