The House of the Seven Gables (film)

The House of the Seven Gables is a 1940 drama film based on the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It stars George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, and Vincent Price.

The film opens with the camera focused on a book. As the pages of the book are turned, the audience learns the story of the Pyncheon family. Colonel Jaffrey Pyncheon, a family ancestor, falsely accused a poor carpenter, Matthew Maule, of witchcraft. Maule was hanged. Pycnheon took his land and built the luxurious Pyncheon home on it. But Maule cursed the Pyncheons, and the colonel soon died. The family has lived during the next years desperately afraid of the Maule curse.Jaffrey Pyncheon George Sanders is a judge just embarking on his career. His elder brother, Clifford Vincent Price, lives at home with their father, Gerald Pyncheon Gilbert Emery. Jaffrey is obsessed with legends that say a vast sum of money is hidden in the Pyncheon house. Jaffrey is summoned to his fathers home when Clifford informs him that the house is to be sold to pay his fathers debts. Jaffrey, terrified at losing the lost treasure, pries up floorboards and searches in the walls at night for the lost gold. Clifford, however, doesnt believe the family stories. He wants to marry his cousin, Hepzibah Pyncheon Margaret Lindsay, sell the house, and move to New York City. ........

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