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imprisonment tragic love death in family family conflict
The House of the Seven Gables
Release Date: February 29, 1940
Year | : | 1940 |
Slogan | : | «AN ANCIENT HOUSE! A MURDER SECRET! A HIDDEN TREASURE!» |
Genres | : | Thriller, Drama |
Production Companies | : | Universal Pictures |
Director | : | Joe May |
Producers | : | Burt Kelly |
Writers | : | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lester Cole, Harold Greene |
RunTime | : | 89 mins. |
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.
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