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The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

Directed by Joe May

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 fiancĂ©e, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

Rated NR | Length 89 minutes

Actors

George Sanders | Margaret Lindsay | Vincent Price | Nan Grey | Dick Foran | Cecil Kellaway | Alan Napier | Gilbert Emery | Miles Mander | Charles Trowbridge | Harry Cording | Hal Budlong | Caroline Frances Cooke | Kernan Cripps | Robert Dudley | Martin Faust | Margaret Fealy | Sibyl Harris | Ellis Irving | P.J. Kelly | Colin Kenny | Ann Kunde | Jane Loofbourrow | Murdock MacQuarrie | Michael Mark | Nelson McDowell | Mira McKinney | Edgar Norton | Lon Poff | Russ Powell | Allen D. Sewall | Jack C. Smith | Hugh Sothern | Harry Stubbs | Claire Whitney | Harry Woods