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.

Starring:

Betsy Ann Hisle, Chief Yowlachie, Dorothy Gray, Dorothy Vernon, Fred Herzog, Henry B Walthall, Iron Eyes Cody, James A Marcus, Joyce Coad, Jules Cowles, Karl Dane, Lars Hanson, Lillian Gish, Marcelle Corday, Margaret Mann, Nora Cecil, Polly Moran, William H Tooker

Genre:

Drama, History