The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

Name: The House of the Seven Gables
Director: Joe May
Released: 1940-04-12
Rating: 6.9
Cast: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Dick Foran

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89 min

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

Plot Summary

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.