Movie Details
Theatrical Release:April 12th, 1940
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Universal Pictures
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
"AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!"Movie
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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.
