The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter (1927)

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.

Date of release
1927-01-08
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Victor Sjöström

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $296K
  • Based on: The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 American silent drama film based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne and directed by Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström. Prints of the film survive in the MGM/United Artists film archives and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is now considered the best film adaptation of Hawthorne's novel.

Production

The film was the second one Gish made under her contract with M-G-M and a departure from the ingénue roles she had performed in service to director D.W. Griffith. (Her first M-G-M picture was directed by King Vidor, an adaption of La bohème with co-star John Gilbert, in which she played the pathetic consumptive Mimi.) She asked production manager Louis B.

Shooting took under two months. The production cost a total of $417,000 when factoring out $48,000 overhead costs.

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