The Scarlet Letter
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- Drama
- History
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.
Keywords
- single mother
- love
- public humiliation
- missing husband
- minister
- punishment
- out of wedlock child
- clergyman
- silent film
- reverend
- adulteress
- stigma
- seamstress
- love child
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 8, 1927
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Lillian Gish,Lars Hanson,Henry B. Walthall,Karl Dane,William H. Tooker,Marcelle Corday,Fred Herzog,Jules Cowles,Mary Hawes,Joyce Coadand 2 more
- Director
- Victor Sjöström
- Producer
- Victor Sjöström
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0017350