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The House of the Seven Gables

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

6.9 / 10
1940
89 min
Thriller
Drama

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.