The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
1940
Drama / Thriller
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The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
1940
Drama / Thriller
7/10
Plot summary
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.