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The House of the Seven Gables

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

1940-04-12
6.917
en 89m
ThrillerDrama
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.

Director

Joe May

Makeup Artist

Jack Pierce

Sound

Bernard B. Brown

Writer

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writer

Lester Cole

Writer

Harold Greene

imprisonment tragic love death in family family conflict

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Universal Pictures

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