Ben Mankiewicz Intro - The Scarlet Letter (1926)

Scarlet Letter, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) What Art Thou Hiding?

Having established local edicts about ladies' undergarments, Hester Prynne (Lilian Gish) doing her laundry alone, discovered by shy but enchanted Reverend Dimmesdale (Lars Hanson), in Victor Seastrom's The Scarlet Letter, 1926, from the Hawthorne novel.

Scarlet Letter, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Hester Prynne's Bird

Scenes introducing Hester Prynne (Lillian Gish), depicting events not covered in the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, disapproval led by Mistress Hibbins (Marcelle Corday), in MGM's The Scarlet Letter, 1926.

Scarlet Letter, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Stern, Unforgiving People

Following the credits, introduction of the nameless New England Puritan village and it's people, and the Reverend Dimmesdae (Lars Hanson), in the 1926 MGM Victor Seastrom (really Sjostrom) production of The Scarlet Letter.