Release Date | 1940-04-12 |
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Runtime | 89 minutes |
Genres | Thriller, Drama |
Stars | George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Dick Foran |
Directors | Joe May, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lester Cole, Harold Greene, Frank Skinner |
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.