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1926
Passed
1h 55m
7.6IMDb

Drama

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What it's about

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hester is already married to Roger Prynne, a physician who has been missing seven years. Dimmesdale has to 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 the rest of her life. Dimmesdale is encouraged by the church fathers to demand of Hester the person with whom she sinned.

Cast and crew

Director: Victor Sjöström
Writer: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frances Marion
Starring: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall

Details

Release date: Jan 8, 1927
Language: English
Country: United States