The Scarlet Letter (1927)
08/01/1927
Drama, History
1h 37m
- 73% (29 votes)
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Overview
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
- Victor SjöströmDirector
- Nathaniel HawthorneWriter
- Frances MarionScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Keywords
- minister
- clergyman
- punishment
- love
- single mother
- silent film
- public humiliation
- reverend
- seamstress
- stigma
- adulteress
- missing husband
- out of wedlock child
- love child
Top Billed Cast
Lillian Gish
Hester Prynne
Lars Hanson
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Henry B. Walthall
Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
Karl Dane
Giles
William H. Tooker
The Governor
Marcelle Corday
Mistress Hibbins
Fred Herzog
The Jailer
Jules Cowles
The Beadle
Mary Hawes
Patience
Joyce Coad
Pearl
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