The House of the Seven Gables

(1940)

★ 7 IMDb · 31 votes

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Romance

Year: 1940

Runtime: 89 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Joe May

Cast: Джордж Сандерс, Margaret Lindsay, Винсент Прайс, Nan Grey, Дик Форан, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier, Gilbert Emery, Miles Mander, Charles Trowbridge

Plot

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.