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- The story unfolds through generations, intertwining themes of guilt, redemption, and the weight of the past. The mysterious house becomes a metaphor for the family’s struggles as the characters confront their fates and the consequences of their ancestors’ actions.
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The House of the Seven Gables is a 1940 Gothic drama film based on the 1851 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It stars George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, and Vincent Price, and tells the story of a family consumed by greed in which one brother frames another for murder.
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.
Pyncheon builds an elaborate home, the Seven Gables, on the property, but on the day the house is completed, he falls dead of a constriction of the throat. The central story begins in 1828 when lawyer Jaffrey Pyncheon returns to Seven Gables one rainy night.
- Joe May, Lester Cole, Phil Karlstein
- George Sanders
The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
The House of the Seven Gables is characterized by an interplay between what appears to be true versus what’s actually true. For example, Clifford, rumored to be hardened criminal, is actually a tender-hearted man who’s sensitive to beauty.
This theme is the “moral” of The House of the Seven Gables, as Hawthorne states in the Preface, and he takes many opportunities to link the misdeeds of Colonel Pyncheon to the subsequent misfortunes of the Pyncheon family.
In The House of the Seven Gables, the theme of family is tied to the question of fate. Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is a greedy, bullying hypocrite. But he's also only the latest in a long line of Pynche...
