The Scarlet Letter is a movie directed by Victor Sjöström in 1926 and based on the book of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1850. The movie features Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, William H. Tooker, Marcelle Corday, and others.
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Storyline
It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy truce exists between local Puritans and their neighbors, the Algonquian. Hester Prynne arrives overseas from England and while she waits for her husband she falls for a young minister. Sentenced to wear a scarlet A for adultery, Prynne is ostracized by the public, and a drummer boy is charged to follow her whenever she comes to town.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
1926
Minutes
115
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Year
1850
Pages
241
Book Rate
6.82
S: Goodreads
Book
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Country: USA
First published in: 1850
Length: 241 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Roland Joffé
Movie by Will Gluck
User polls & recommendations
“A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.”
GRAHAM GREENE (Writer)
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