The House of the Seven Gables
movie
AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
Released April 12, 1940
Overview
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.
Cast
George Sanders
as
Jaffrey Pyncheon
Margaret Lindsay
as
Hepzibah Pyncheon
Vincent Price
as
Clifford Pyncheon
Nan Grey
as
Phoebe Pyncheon
Dick Foran
as
Matthew Maule
Cecil Kellaway
as
Philip Barton
Alan Napier
as
Fuller
Gilbert Emery
as
Gerald Pyncheon
Miles Mander
as
Deacon Arnold Foster
Charles Trowbridge
as
Judge
Harry Cording
as
Blacksmith Hawkins
Michael Mark
as
Ex-Convict
Crew
Joe May
as
Director
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Bernard B. Brown
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Sound
Jack Pierce
as
Makeup Artist
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Harold Greene
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Writer
Frank Skinner
as
Music
Nathaniel Hawthorne
as
Writer
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Lester Cole
as
Writer
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Burt Kelly
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Producer
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Frank Gross
as
Editor
Milton Krasner
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Director of Photography
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Russell A. Gausman
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Set Decoration
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Jack Otterson
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Art Direction