The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
89 min
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.
- Release date
- April 12, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Frank Skinner
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Trailer
Cast
- George Sanders as Jaffrey Pyncheon
- Margaret Lindsay as Hepzibah Pyncheon
- Vincent Price as Clifford Pyncheon
- Nan Grey as Phoebe Pyncheon
- Dick Foran as Matthew Holgrave
- Cecil Kellaway as Philip Barton
- Alan Napier as Fuller
- Gilbert Emery as Gerald Pyncheon
- Miles Mander as Deacon Foster
- Charles Trowbridge as Judge
- Harry Cording as Blacksmith Hawkins
- Michael Mark as Ex-Convict
- 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
- Anne Kunde as Courtroom Spectator
- Murdock MacQuarrie as Town Gossip
- Nelson McDowell as Coroner in Courtroom
- Mira McKinney as Mrs. Reynolds
- Edgar Norton as Phineas Weed - Jaffrey's Servant
- Lon Poff as Juror
Crew
- Joe May · Director
- Lester Cole · Writer
- Harold Greene · Writer
- Nathaniel Hawthorne · Writer
- Frank Skinner · Composer
- Milton R. Krasner · Cinematographer
- Frank Gross · Editor