A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Lars Hanson and Lillian Gish. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Lillian Gish [Hester Prynne], Lars Hanson [Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale], Henry B. Walthall [Roger Prynne], Karl Dane [Giles], William H. Tooker [the governor], Marcelle Corday [Mistress Hibbins], Fred Herzog [the jailer], Jules Cowles [the beadle], Mary Hawes [Patience], Joyce Coad [Pearl], James A. Marcus [a sea captain], Nora Cecil, Dorothy Gray, Margaret Mann, Polly Moran

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Frances Marion, from the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Sidney Ullman. Costume design by Max Rée. Assistant director, Harold S. Bucquet. Cinematography by Hendrik Sartov. Film editor, Hugh Wynn. Intertitles written by Frances Marion. / Premiered 9 August 1926 in New York, New York. General release, 8 January 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Gish’s second MGM film. The novel was previously filmed as The Scarlet Letter (1922).

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive; and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Adultery

Listing updated: 28 June 2024.

References: Bardèche-History p. 264; Eames-MGM p. 35; Everson-American pp. 161, 319; Fell-History pp. 124, 125; Forslund-Sjöström p. 279; Geduld-Birth p. 146; Higashi-Virgins pp. 20-22; Kael-Kiss p. 345; Kerr-Silent p. 315; Kobal-Fifty p. 42; Leish-Cinema pp. 49-50, 51, 57-58; Limbacher-Feature p. 214; McIlroy-Sweden pp. 23, 25, 26, 167; Shipman-Cinema p. 92; Sinyard-Silent pp. 76, 156; Sklar-Movie p. 100; Vermilye-Twenties p. 215; Walker-Garbo pp. 28, 39; Weaver-Twenty p. 146 : ClasIm-301 p. 17 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.