

The House of the Seven Gables
1940 · Movie · 1h 29m · NR
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"AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!"
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.
Ratings
IMDb
7/10
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
Metacritic
54/100
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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Themes
imprisonmenttragic lovedeath in familyfamily conflict























