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The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

Average Score: 6.9 (rated by 30 viewers)

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

Genres

Thriller, Drama

Additional info

CastReview
  • 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