The House of the Seven Gables
AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
3.5
Length89 mins
LanguageEnglish
Release Date1940-04-12
StatusReleased
Thriller
Drama
Synopsis
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.