Product Details

• Actors: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
• Directors: Joe May
• Writers: Harold Greene, Lester Cole, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Producers: Burt Kelly
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: June 30, 1998
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0783224788
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #187,499 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Near classic, June 20, 2000

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Mark McKinney (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House of the Seven Gables [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Vincent Price did not always do horror movies, but he was always a good actor and this film proves it. Price actually does not play the heavy in this film, that role falls to George Sanders who excels in a role where he deals out treachery. Price, Sanders and Margeret Lindsay all give outstanding performances. This may not be Vincent Price's best film, but it certainly ranks up there as one of his best performances. This is not a horror film, but it is a dark film that shows the impact greed can cause. The ending seems a little rushed, but it is still effective. There are no special effects and just simple sets, but the story and fantastic acting make this a great film for a wide range of viewers.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great movie; lousy DVD-R, February 22, 2010

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T. Casey "Tim Casey" (Boston MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The House of the Seven Gables (Amazon.com Exclusive) (DVD)

It's not worth buying these discs. Mine stuttered and broke up throughout the length of the movie. If the studios are going to want us to pay $17 to $20 for DVD-Rs, they're going to have to press them better than this. I press DVD-Rs on my Mac and they have no problems on any of my players, so it's not like DVD-Rs are inherently bad.

Shame on Amazon.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tall Tale, February 11, 2010

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Fritz Langlois - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The House of the Seven Gables (Amazon.com Exclusive) (DVD)

THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES (Joe May, 1940) is typical Golden era studio-bound Hollywood fare. This DVD release has the film in gorgeous black and white and very good sound quality, but no subtitles at all and no extras.
It is based on a classic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tale of betrayal, time-defying love and revenge revolves around two brothers of very different character, one joyously romantic (the tall and early Vincent Price in his 6th film credit), one greedy and vile beyond belief (the tall and great George Sanders, of many a classic movie). Sanders, strangely, doesn't seem completely at ease with his part, maybe because the character he plays is quite one-dimensional, with no redeeming feature, exhibiting no charm or wit (Sanders' trademark roles have those two elements). It's Price who shines most here, his part requiring him to display a wide range of emotions, from unabashed romantic love to a doomed sense of fate, from sprightly young musician to revenge seeker to former convict in old age. One interesting side of the story is its psychanalytical use of the curse plaguing the Pyncheon family. The supporting actors are uniformly good, and the musical score is by Hubert J. Salter. 87 minutes of the best B-movie kind, from a time when actors had room to stretch and carry the films on their shoulders, without the help of special effects or fast editing.