
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
6.9|12 Apr, 1940|89 min
AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
6.9|12 Apr, 1940|89 min
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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
imprisonment
tragic love
death in family
family conflict
Casts

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
Hal Budlong
Driver

Caroline Frances Cooke
Town Gossip

Kernan Cripps
Workman

Robert Dudley
Jury Foreman

Martin Faust
Town Gossip

Margaret Fealy
Town Gossip

Sibyl Harris
Mrs. Foster
Ellis Irving
Man Drinking From Cup
P.J. Kelly
Man With Rake

Colin Kenny
Court Bailiff
Ann Kunde
Courtroom Spectator
Jane Loofbourrow
Town Gossip

Murdock MacQuarrie
Town Gossip

Michael Mark
Ex-Convict Reading Tribune

Nelson McDowell
Coroner in Courtroom

Mira McKinney
Mrs. Reynolds

Edgar Norton
Phineas Weed - Jaffrey's Servant

Lon Poff
Juror

Russ Powell
Grocer / Juror
Allen D. Sewall
Juror
Jack C. Smith
Prison Guard

Hugh Sothern
Reverend Jeremiah Smith

Harry Stubbs
Jeremiah - Man in Pub

Claire Whitney
Witness

Harry Woods
Mr. Wainwright
Crews

Joe May
Director
Bernard B. Brown
Sound

Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist
Harold Greene
Writer

Frank Skinner
Music

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writer
Lester Cole
Writer
Burt Kelly
Producer
Frank Gross
Editor

Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Jack Otterson
Art Direction
Vera West
Costume Design
Backdrops & Posters

