House of the Seven Gables

Tells the story of the Pyncheon family as the legend of unscrupulous old Colonel Pyncheon affects his descendants. From the feature film based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In the late 17th century, Colonel Jaffrey Pyncheon falsely accused a poor carpenter, Matthew Maule, of witchcraft. The family has lived during the next 160 years desperately afraid of the "Maule curse" In the mid-19th century the family of Pyncheons is obsessed with legends that say a vast sum of money is hidden in the house. In 1841, Clifford is given a new cellmate, who identifies himself as Matthew "Holgrave"

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Cast
George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Nan Grey, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
Complete catalog record
Tells the story of the Pyncheon family as the legend of unscrupulous old Colonel Pyncheon affects his descendants. From the feature film based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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