Lillian Gish gives one of her finest performances in the powerful 1926 silent version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER, beautifully filmed by the great Swedish director Victor Sjostrom.
In 17th century Puritan Boston, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (Lars Hanson) falls in love with seamstress Hester Prynne (Lillian Gish). He tells her that he has to go to England and asks her to marry him, but she reveals that she's already married, albeit to a wealthy surgeon whom her father forced
her to wed before she left England, and that her husband has never come to join her in America. Dimmesdale leaves, and when he returns months later, he discovers that Hester ha...
Released:
1926
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins