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18 September 1934 (USA) moreTagline:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of sin & redemption!Plot:
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Oddly faithful little relic moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Colleen Moore | ... | Hester Prynne |
| Hardie Albright | ... | Arthur Dimmesdale |
| Henry B. Walthall | ... | Roger Chillingworth |
| Cora Sue Collins | ... | Pearl |
| Alan Hale | ... | Bartholomew Hockings |
| Virginia Howell | ... | Abigail Crakstone |
| William Kent | ... | Sampson Goodfellow (as William T. Kent) |
| William Farnum | ... | Gov. Bellingham |
| Betty Blythe | ... | Innkeeper |
| Al O. Henderson | ... | Master Wilson |
| Jules Cowles | ... | Beadle |
| Mickey Rentschler | ... | Digerie Crakstone |
| Shirley Jean Rickert | ... | Humility Crakstone |
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I was struck by how faithful this film is to the original novel, comparatively speaking anyway (I've seen versions of Jane Eyre with a beautiful Jane, and versions of Moby Dick where Ahab wins!). The three main characters - Hester, Chillingworth, and the tortured Reverend, are all sensitively and accurately portrayed. The story is compacted, of course, but the essential elements are there.
The only real let-down is the inclusion of strange, slapstick comic characters who show up every ten minutes, like clockwork, to perform some unfunny bit of business. A perverse part of me kinda liked them, maybe because they were so crass, and such an obvious attempt to lighten the mood. I also got a strange joy out of seeing some totally inappropriate costumes among the villagers, including what appeared to be a group of Conquistadors (!) loitering in the background.
It's amazing that, despite these horribly incongruous elements, the film works pretty well.