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Matthew Maule – Original owner of the land where the House of Seven Gables is built. Colonel Pyncheon had him hanged as a wizard so that he could seize the man's property. Clifford Pyncheon – Hepzibah's elderly, unwell brother who lives in the house after serving a sentence for the murder of his uncle; he was framed by his cousin, Jaffrey.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
Box office. $161,625 [3] 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. It is a remake of the 1910 film of the ...
1942. The House of the Seven Gables é um romance gótico escrito em 1851 pelo escritor americano Nathaniel Hawthorne e publicado no mesmo ano pela Companhia Editora Ticknor and Fields, de Boston. Hawthorne explora temas envolvendo culpa, retribuição e expiação em uma família da Nova Inglaterra, nos Estados Unidos, colorindo seus relatos ...
The House of the Seven Gables: Directed by Joe May. With George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran. Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Joe May
- 1940-04-12
The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne’s own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch trials. The greed and arrogance of the novel ...
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 loom large over The House of the Seven Gables, as they did over Hawthorne’s own life. The Trials began after two little girls accused three women (a slave, a beggar, and a poor elderly woman) of supernaturally afflicting them with strange fits. Over the coming months, dozens of people, mostly women, were tried ...
