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The House of the Seven Gables

6.9 89 mins Thriller   Drama   Romance   1940
Universal Pictures  
Director(s): Joe May

Release Date: 12 Fri, Apr 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.

Casts of The House of the Seven Gables

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

Harry Cording

as Blacksmith Hawkins

Michael Mark

as Ex-Convict

Hal Budlong

as Driver

Caroline Frances Cooke

as Town Gossip

Kernan Cripps

as Workman

Robert Dudley

as Jury Foreman

Martin Faust

as Town Gossip

Margaret Fealy

as Town Gossip

Sibyl Harris

as Mrs. Foster

Ellis Irving

as Man Drinking From Cup

P.J. Kelly

as Man With Rake

Colin Kenny

as Court Bailiff

Ann Kunde

as Courtroom Spectator

Jane Loofbourrow

as Town Gossip

Murdock MacQuarrie

as Town Gossip

Michael Mark

as Ex-Convict Reading Tribune

Nelson McDowell

as Coroner in Courtroom

Mira McKinney

as Mrs. Reynolds

Edgar Norton

as Phineas Weed - Jaffrey's Servant

Lon Poff

as Juror

Russ Powell

as Grocer / Juror

Allen D. Sewall

as Juror

Jack C. Smith

as Prison Guard

Hugh Sothern

as Reverend Jeremiah Smith

Harry Stubbs

as Jeremiah - Man in Pub

Claire Whitney

as Witness

Harry Woods

as Mr. Wainwright

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