The House of the Seven Gables

The read

Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Joe MayDirector
• Harold GreeneWriter
• Nathaniel HawthorneWriter
• Lester ColeWriter

Cast

• George SandersJaffrey Pyncheon
• Margaret LindsayHepzibah Pyncheon
• Vincent PriceClifford Pyncheon
• Nan GreyPhoebe Pyncheon
• Dick ForanMatthew Maule
• Cecil KellawayPhilip Barton
• Alan NapierFuller
• Gilbert EmeryGerald Pyncheon
• Miles ManderDeacon Arnold Foster
• Charles TrowbridgeJudge
• Harry CordingBlacksmith Hawkins
• Michael MarkEx-Convict

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