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The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

Drama Romance Thriller

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

Release Date: 1940, April 12
Directors: Joe May
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures
Cast: Vincent Price, Kernan Cripps, Michael Mark, George Sanders, Mira McKinney, Murdock MacQuarrie, Russ Powell, Colin Kenny, Robert Dudley, Ann Kunde, Allen D. Sewall, Alan Napier

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.

Keywords:

death in family tragic love imprisonment family conflict