Filmboxd Logo

Filmboxd

1940

The House of the Seven Gables

Directed by Joe May
AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!

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.

Duration

1h 29m

Released

April 12, 1940

You´re not logged yet? Do it here

6.9

Rating30

Views0

Likes0

Lists8

Cast37

  • George Sanders
  • Margaret Lindsay
  • Vincent Price
  • Nan Grey
  • Dick Foran
  • Cecil Kellaway
  • Alan Napier
  • Gilbert Emery
  • Miles Mander

Recommended Films

  • Wuthering Heights
  • Love Story
  • Home for the Holidays
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • A Walk to Remember
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Live Flesh
  • Léon: The Professional
  • The Experiment
  • Titanic
  • Gandhi
  • Oldboy
  • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
  • Happiness
  • The Flower of Evil
  • Goodbye Jeanette
  • A Second Chance
  • Our Folks: The Beginning
  • Intimate Strangers
  • The Secret of the Grain