The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

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.

Cast

Jaffrey Pyncheon
George Sanders
Hepzibah Pyncheon
Margaret Lindsay
Blacksmith Hawkins
Harry Cording
Ex-Convict
Michael Mark
Driver
H Hal Budlong
Town Gossip
C Caroline Frances Cooke
Workman
Kernan Cripps
Jury Foreman
Robert Dudley
Town Gossip
M Martin Faust
Town Gossip
Margaret Fealy
Mrs. Foster
S Sibyl Harris
Man Drinking From Cup
E Ellis Irving
Clifford Pyncheon
Vincent Price
Man With Rake
P P.J. Kelly
Court Bailiff
Colin Kenny
Courtroom Spectator
A Ann Kunde
Town Gossip
J Jane Loofbourrow
Town Gossip
Murdock MacQuarrie
Ex-Convict Reading Tribune
Michael Mark
Coroner in Courtroom
Nelson McDowell
Mrs. Reynolds
Mira McKinney
Phineas Weed - Jaffrey's Servant
Edgar Norton
Juror
Lon Poff
Phoebe Pyncheon
Nan Grey
Grocer / Juror
R Russ Powell
Juror
A Allen D. Sewall
Prison Guard
J Jack C. Smith
Reverend Jeremiah Smith
Hugh Sothern
Jeremiah - Man in Pub
Harry Stubbs
Witness
Claire Whitney
Mr. Wainwright
Harry Woods
Matthew Maule
Dick Foran
Philip Barton
Cecil Kellaway
Fuller
Alan Napier
Gerald Pyncheon
Gilbert Emery
Deacon Arnold Foster
Miles Mander
Judge
Charles Trowbridge

Crew

Director
Joe May
Writer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writer
L Lester Cole
Writer
H Harold Greene
Music
Frank Skinner
Editor
F Frank Gross
Producer
B Burt Kelly
Director of Photography
Milton Krasner
Art Direction
J Jack Otterson
Set Decoration
R Russell A. Gausman
Costume Design
V Vera West
Makeup Artist
Jack Pierce
Sound
B Bernard B. Brown