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.
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
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