The Scarlet Letter
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.
- Year : 1927
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Drama, History
- Studio : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Keyword : minister, clergyman, punishment, love, single mother, silent film, public humiliation, reverend, seamstress, stigma, adulteress, missing husband, out of wedlock child, love child
- Director : Victor Sjöström
- Cast : Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker, Marcelle Corday