The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola and based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The film has been preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Plot:
Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock and refuses to name the father (who is a respected citizen). For this, she is sentenced to wear a red letter “A” (for adultery). Her husband is long missing and presumed dead. When the husband returns and finds his wife with another man’s child, he sets out to torture them. At last, the father reveals himself, with a letter “A” carved in his chest and dies after that.
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