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The House of the Seven Gables [Blu-ray]
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| Genre | Mystery & Suspense |
| Format | Anamorphic, Subtitled, NTSC |
| Contributor | Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, George Sanders |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 29 minutes |
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Jealousy, loyalty, and a family feud between two brothers are all at play in The House of the Seven Gables, based on the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Twice-Told Tales). The sudden death of Jaffrey (George Sanders, The Lodger) and Clifford (Vincent Price, Tales of Terror) Pyncheon’s father provides the vengeful and vindictive Jaffrey with the perfect opportunity to get his brother out of the way and seize the family fortune. Framed for murder and forced to leave his fiancée (Margaret Lindsay, Scarlet Street) behind, Clifford is sent off to prison, where he befriends Matthew Holgrave (Dick Foran, Fort Apache), the descendent of the Maule family, with whom the Pyncheons have a long history of turbulence. Can the two join together to foil Jaffrey, or are the families destined to repeat the mistakes of the past and live out the curse of their ancestors? Joe May (Asphalt) directed this classic thriller featuring Cecil Kellaway (Harvey) and Alan Napier (The Uninvited).
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- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.47 Ounces
- Media Format : Anamorphic, Subtitled, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 29 minutes
- Release date : April 23, 2019
- Actors : Vincent Price, George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay
- Studio : KL Studio Classics
- ASIN : B07NBDQYYF
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #79,803 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #5,709 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Before last night, I had never seen this movie. Based on the facts that this was taken from a classic book, starred a young Vincent Prince in a non-horror role, and was restored by Kino Lorber, I figured it was worth chancing a $20 purchase. The gamble paid off immensely. This is a truly excellent film.
The story was indeed superb. Vincent Price was excellent in his role, as were the other main actors. The movie was both well-paced and well-developed. The dialog, in particular, was so well-crafted. The scene where this first jumped out at me was when a hardened Margaret Lindsay had made Vincent Price breakfast, striving desperately for a long-lost sense of normalcy between them. As he lovingly gazes at her, she withers, and tells him there isn’t much left to look at. And that’s when he responds with yet another masterful line, “Let my eyes be your mirror…”, reassuring her that she will always be beautiful in his sight. And this is just but tiny sample.
In the job of restoration and transfer to Blu-ray, Kino Lorber again excelled. I had to visually study the film to perceive imperfections, and the sound was open and true.
Overall: 4.5 stars.
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2019
Before last night, I had never seen this movie. Based on the facts that this was taken from a classic book, starred a young Vincent Prince in a non-horror role, and was restored by Kino Lorber, I figured it was worth chancing a $20 purchase. The gamble paid off immensely. This is a truly excellent film.
The story was indeed superb. Vincent Price was excellent in his role, as were the other main actors. The movie was both well-paced and well-developed. The dialog, in particular, was so well-crafted. The scene where this first jumped out at me was when a hardened Margaret Lindsay had made Vincent Price breakfast, striving desperately for a long-lost sense of normalcy between them. As he lovingly gazes at her, she withers, and tells him there isn’t much left to look at. And that’s when he responds with yet another masterful line, “Let my eyes be your mirror…”, reassuring her that she will always be beautiful in his sight. And this is just but tiny sample.
In the job of restoration and transfer to Blu-ray, Kino Lorber again excelled. I had to visually study the film to perceive imperfections, and the sound was open and true.
Overall: 4.5 stars.
Saunders as the evil brother is excellent.
Screenplay based on Hawthorne novel is engaging and accessible. A number of minor characters are well written and well acted to build an entertaining portrait of small town life.
Photography is quite good and sometimes down right witty.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the great figures of American literature. Just eight years older than Charles Dickens, born in Salem of English Puritan ancestry, his novels and short stories, mostly set in New England, tend to be dense, complex and carry deep moral messages. He is usually described as a ‘Dark Romantic’, a genre epitomised by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. His novel ‘The House of the Seven Gables’, published in 1851, was categorised as a ‘romance’. Typical of Hawthorne, it was set in Salem, and touched on curses, legacies and the infamous 17th Century Witch Trials.
Universal Studios selected the story for one of its celebrated horror films, a series relaunched in 1938 after a brief hiatus caused by public disgust over the ‘The Raven’(1935). It had been filmed as far back as 1910. This film, adapted by Lester Cole, is based on the novel, but some details differ quite markedly. However, the main thrust of the story, and of the atmosphere and spirit created by Hawthorne, appears in Cole’s considerably shortened telling.
In fact, this is really not a horror film by any stretch. In terms of Universal’s iconic series, it deals neither with monsters in the vein of ‘Dracula’ or ‘The Mummy’, nor with science-gone-mad, like ‘The Invisible Man’ or ‘Frankenstein’. Instead, it is a High Gothic romance, a thoroughly atmospheric cautionary tale, of greed, jealousy and revenge and also of loyalty and love. It is true that highly-respected Austrian-born Joe May was chosen to direct because he was responsible for Universal’s successful ‘The Invisible Man Returns’(1940), but May himself apparently saw the plot as a metaphor for opposing fascism.
The look of the film, the lighting and cinematography, are all exceptional. There is a quite delicious suggestion of ‘Great Expectations’ and Miss Haversham about some of the scenes ~ it’s interesting that the first film version of Dickens’s masterpiece was Universal’s, in 1934! And May brought several tricks from his early experience with German Expressionist cinema, using shadows particularly effectively.
In a strong cast, a young, handsome Vincent Price is particularly noteworthy, as the musical brother, Clifford. And Margaret Lindsay, a very successful northern foil to Bette Davis’s spoilt, entitled southern belle in ‘Jezebel’(1938), is superb as the loyal and resolute Hepzibah. George Sanders, as the malicious obsessive, Jaffrey, is suitably caddish and nefarious: apparently he made life hell, on set, for May and Alan Napier (Fuller, the postman).
Well-received in 1940, subsequently criticised for being too “mild”, Universal meanwhile began to fret that the script and directing were too radical!! We found it enjoyable, novel and singularly satisfying.


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