- HD 1080
- Runtime: 89m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Joe May
- Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Dick Foran
- keywords: imprisonment, tragic love, death in family, family conflict
- Production_studio: Universal Pictures
- Slogan: AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
- The The House of the Seven Gables is featured in the top rankings of 1940
- #15 in Top Drama Movies of 1940
- #7 in Top Thriller Movies of 1940
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.