The House of the Seven Gables

Year: 1940

Runtime: 89 mins

Language: English

Director: Joe May

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In 1828 the impoverished Pyncheon family battles over the ancestral Seven Gables mansion. Jaffrey Pyncheon secures the house by having his brother Clifford falsely convicted of murder. Clifford’s devoted fiancée Hepzibah endures twenty years of his imprisonment, while Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, plot a scheme that could change their fortunes.

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