The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

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

  • Genre: Thriller, Drama
  • Release Date: 1940-04-12
  • User Rating: 6.9/10 from 29 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 29min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Universal Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Joe May
star 6.9/10
From 29 Ratings

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.

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  • George Sanders

    as Jaffrey Pyncheon

  • Margaret Lindsay

    as Hepzibah Pyncheon

  • Vincent Price

    as Clifford Pyncheon

  • Nan Grey

    as Phoebe Pyncheon

  • Dick Foran

    as Matthew Maule

  • Cecil Kellaway

    as Philip Barton

  • Alan Napier

    as Fuller

  • Gilbert Emery

    as Gerald Pyncheon

  • Miles Mander

    as Deacon Arnold Foster

  • Charles Trowbridge

    as Judge

  • Harry Cording

    as Blacksmith Hawkins

  • Michael Mark

    as Ex-Convict

  • Hal Budlong

    as Driver

  • Caroline Frances Cooke

    as Town Gossip

  • Kernan Cripps

    as Workman

  • Robert Dudley

    as Jury Foreman

  • Martin Faust

    as Town Gossip

  • Margaret Fealy

    as Town Gossip

  • Sibyl Harris

    as Mrs. Foster

  • Ellis Irving

    as Man Drinking From Cup

  • P.J. Kelly

    as Man With Rake

  • Colin Kenny

    as Court Bailiff

  • Ann Kunde

    as Courtroom Spectator

  • Jane Loofbourrow

    as Town Gossip

  • Murdock MacQuarrie

    as Town Gossip

  • Michael Mark

    as Ex-Convict Reading Tribune

  • Nelson McDowell

    as Coroner in Courtroom

  • Mira McKinney

    as Mrs. Reynolds

  • Edgar Norton

    as Phineas Weed - Jaffrey's Servant

  • Lon Poff

    as Juror

  • Russ Powell

    as Grocer / Juror

  • Allen D. Sewall

    as Juror

  • Jack C. Smith

    as Prison Guard

  • Hugh Sothern

    as Reverend Jeremiah Smith

  • Harry Stubbs

    as Jeremiah - Man in Pub

  • Claire Whitney

    as Witness

  • Harry Woods

    as Mr. Wainwright
Directing Joe May Director
Costume & Make-Up Jack Pierce Makeup Artist
Sound Bernard B. Brown Sound
Writing Nathaniel Hawthorne Writer
Writing Lester Cole Writer
Writing Harold Greene Writer
Sound Frank Skinner Music
Editing Frank Gross Editor
Production Burt Kelly Producer
Camera Milton Krasner Director of Photography
Art Jack Otterson Art Direction
Art Russell A. Gausman Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Vera West Costume Design

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