The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

6.9 | Apr 12, 1940 (US) | Thriller, Drama | 01:29

imprisonment tragic love death in family family conflict

AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!

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.