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.電影《七個(gè)尖角的閣樓》上映于1940年的劇情影片，由喬·梅伊執(zhí)導(dǎo)，編劇 萊斯特·科爾、哈羅德·格林，相關(guān)飾演分別有 George Sanders、Margaret Lindsay、文森特·普萊斯。