• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1940-04-12
  • Runtime89 minutes
  • TaglineAN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreThriller, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesUniversal Pictures
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie 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.

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George Sanders

Margaret Lindsay

Vincent Price

Nan Grey

Dick Foran

Cecil Kellaway

Alan Napier

Gilbert Emery

Miles Mander

Charles Trowbridge

Harry Cording

Michael Mark

Caroline Frances Cooke

Kernan Cripps

Robert Dudley

Martin Faust

Margaret Fealy

Sibyl Harris

Colin Kenny

Murdock MacQuarrie

Michael Mark

Nelson McDowell

Mira McKinney

Edgar Norton

Lon Poff

Russ Powell

Hugh Sothern

Harry Stubbs

Claire Whitney

Harry Woods