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.
George Sanders
as Jaffrey Pyncheon
Margaret Lindsay
as Hepzibah Pyncheon
Vincent Price
as Clifford Pyncheon
Nan Grey
as Phoebe Pyncheon
Dick Foran
as Matthew Maule
Cecil Kellaway
as Philip Barton
Alan Napier
as Fuller
Gilbert Emery
as Gerald Pyncheon
Miles Mander
as Deacon Arnold Foster
Charles Trowbridge
as Judge
Harry Cording
as Blacksmith Hawkins
Michael Mark
as Ex-Convict
