The Scarlet Letter
by Robert G. Vignola
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Actor: Alan Hale, Colleen Moore, Cora Sue Collins, Hardie Albright, Henry B. WalthallDirector: Robert G. Vignola
Brand: Alpha Video
Cinematographer: James S. Brown Jr.
Editor: Charles Harris
Producer: Larry Darmour
Writer: David Silverstein
Writer: Leonard Fields
Writer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 69 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
Movie Reviews of The Scarlet Letter
Movie Review: Secret repentance kills the soul and the body
Summary: 4 Stars
This adaptation of Hawthorne's novel is not a masterpiece according to today's cinematographic art. But it is an essential historical document on how the novel was seen in these old years, and how the cinema worked : with no special effects and no computers, not even color. And moreover it is an essential film because the vision of the novel and of the plot is, though short and simple, extremely faithful. We hence have a full drama of impossible repentance imposed onto one sinner by the other. Repentance has to be public or it is not. We also have a drastic vision of the punished woman becoming the glorified person whereas the man who goes unpunished by society is tenfold more punished by his own soul and guilt. Punished to death. This is the very reversal of the puritan vision by life that thus appears as denying any righteousness to puritanism. The point on which this film is rather deficient is the vision of the child. In those days it xas not that easy to get a child to perform this role, the role of Pearl. It is slightly regrettable because the child is the real center of the novel, in spite of what some may think. She is the real heroin and the true winning victim. At this level there is some cynism on the part of the novel and this film renders it very well.
Dr Jacques Coulardeau
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?MPAA Rating: NR
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 69 minutes
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