After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.
- Awards
- 1 win
Buck Black
- Child in crowd
- (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody
- Young Indian at Dunking
- (uncredited)
Artye Folz
- Child
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Gray
- Child
- (uncredited)
Douglas Haig
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Betsy Ann Hisle
- Child
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaLillian Gish learned that her mother had had a stroke in London and her sister, Dorothy Gish, urged her to get there on the first available boat. When Lillian informed director Victor Sjöström of the need to finish the film quickly, he created a shooting schedule that crammed two weeks worth of shooting into three days of non-stop work. The crew worked without complaint so that she could finish the film early and catch the earliest possible train to New York.
- Quotes
Mistress Hibbins: I am wrongly accused! Never hath my tongue been given to gossip!
The Governor: Falsehood! Her tongue hath wagged like the tail of a dog! Duck her again!
- Alternate versionsIn 2000, Turner Entertainment Co. copyrighted a restored version with a musical score written by Lisa Anne Miller and Mark Northam and a running time of 98 minutes. Its previous version ran 79 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971)
Featured review
Exactly what we've lost since the end of the silent era is magnificently on display in Victor Seastrom's THE SCARLET LETTER: shimmering black and white photography of superbly composed and paced scenes capturing the essence of the American classic novel by Hawthorne, though certain details of the story have been altered and may annoy literary purists. This is not the novel but a separate work, more than a perceptive and intelligent picturization. Here is the great, lost art of silent screen acting, with Lillian Gish, unforgettable as Hesther Prynne, leading an accomplished cast. The result is pure visual poetry.
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter
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- Budget
- $430,290 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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