The Scarlet Letter (1926)
3.9 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 55min
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- Synopsis:
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne (Lillian Gish) is punished for playing on the Sabbath day, but kind minister Arthur Dimmesdale (Lars Hanson) takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be; Hester is already married to Roger Prynne (Henry B. Walthall), a physician who has been missing for seven years. Dimmesdale must go away to England; when he returns, he finds Hester pregnant with their child - and the focus of the town's censure. In a humiliating public ceremony, she is forced to don the scarlet letter A - for adultery - and wear it for the rest of her life. The church fathers encourage Dimmesdale to demand that Hester name the person with whom she sinned. - Actors:
- Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker, Marcelle Corday, Fred Herzog, Jules Cowles, Mary Hawes, Joyce Coad, James A. Marcus, Buck Black, Nora Cecil, Iron Eyes Cody, Artye Folz, Dorothy Gray, Douglas Haig, Betsy Ann Hisle, Edna Lyons, Margaret Mann
- Directors:
- Victor Sjöström
- Producers:
- Victor Sjöström
- Writers:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frances Marion
- Aka:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama