- 22/04/2025
The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel. The film follows Hester Prynne, a woman in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts who is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for bearing a child out of wedlock. As she struggles against societal judgment, her secret lover, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, faces his own internal torment. Meanwhile, her estranged husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. With dramatic performances, period-accurate settings, and a faithful adaptation of Hawthorne’s themes, this film remains a notable entry in early Hollywood literary adaptations.
Credits:
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Producer: Larry Darmour
Starring: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Hale
Screenplay: Leonard Fields, David Silverstein
Cinematography: James S. Brown Jr.
#TheScarletLetter1934 #ClassicHollywood #NathanielHawthorne #LiteraryAdaptation
Credits:
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Producer: Larry Darmour
Starring: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Hale
Screenplay: Leonard Fields, David Silverstein
Cinematography: James S. Brown Jr.
#TheScarletLetter1934 #ClassicHollywood #NathanielHawthorne #LiteraryAdaptation
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00:00:00The End
00:01:30Master Bottle is indeed a lucky man.
00:01:49I, his wife, will be starring in at least one day.
00:01:53A pretty spectacle.
00:02:10My bosom companion seated in the stocks again.
00:02:15But it pains me more than thee.
00:02:18Aye.
00:02:20But not in the same place.
00:02:22Oh, here comes your beloved now.
00:02:50Oh, Bartholomew, Bartholomew, stand before me, please.
00:02:55Please stand before me.
00:03:00Good day, Mistress Abigail.
00:03:01Good day, Master Bartholomew.
00:03:03Perhaps I've seen Master Sampson.
00:03:04I'm waiting here for him.
00:03:05Oh, look, Mother, Master Sampson, then the stocks.
00:03:13Greetings, Mistress Abigail.
00:03:15Dinner.
00:03:17You had better heed the teaching of the Reverend Dimmonsdale,
00:03:20or you will end your days on a shuffle.
00:03:22Hey, achtala.
00:03:35Hmm.
00:03:36Oh.
00:03:37Ah.
00:04:02Good day.
00:04:03Good day, mister.
00:04:04Can you serve me food and lodging?
00:04:07Hmm.
00:04:08Lodging?
00:04:09We have none.
00:04:10But can you not return later for food?
00:04:12Even now, the bell summoned us all to the square.
00:04:15Is it a feast day?
00:04:17Have you not heard of the scandal in the mosque at Dinsdale's church?
00:04:22From whence came you?
00:04:24From the south, where I was shipwrecked and spent two weary years among the heathen.
00:04:31Oh.
00:04:32It must glad in your heart to again be in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished.
00:04:39Surely.
00:04:40Even today, a gentlewoman is being punished by the magistrate for adultery.
00:04:45Does her husband accuse her?
00:04:48Oh, no.
00:04:49No, she's a widow.
00:04:50Her husband was a learned doctor.
00:04:52The plague which was raging in London detained him, so he sent her on ahead.
00:04:57What happened to him?
00:04:59He must be at the bottom of the sea, for there have been no tidings from him in over two years.
00:05:04Being left to her own misguidance, his wife, Hester Prynne, went astray.
00:05:10Hester Prynne is alive.
00:05:12A purer creature never lived.
00:05:14You know her?
00:05:15You know her?
00:05:16Know her.
00:05:17I'm her husband.
00:05:18Her husband's best friend.
00:05:21Oh.
00:05:22Who accuses her?
00:05:24Her child.
00:05:25Hester Prynne, a child?
00:05:30Aye.
00:05:31A little girl.
00:05:32You mean Hester Prynne has born a child in the past two years?
00:05:42I do.
00:05:58It would be well for the public if we women had the handling of such huzzies as Hester Prynne.
00:06:03Claire said good wife.
00:06:05We would teach her a pretty lesson.
00:06:12Who's running now to look upon a gentlewoman shamed?
00:06:28But Master Demesdale, Moses and Laura are commands that such as she be stoned.
00:06:33Yes, but one greater than Moses said.
00:06:35He is without sin and most cast a stone.
00:06:37Master Demesdale, you should not take the sin of one of your flocks so much to heart.
00:06:41Governor Bellingham, our lord did pardon such a one.
00:06:44He said go woman and sin no more.
00:06:46Cannot we do as much?
00:06:47Or would mock itself if pardoned if it preceded the penalty?
00:07:11A blessing on ye righteous people of the colony of the Massachusetts.
00:07:18Make way good people, make way in the king's name.
00:07:38Look, her baggage walks with the dignity of a queen.
00:07:54Has she no shame?
00:07:56Peace, peace.
00:07:57She suffers enough.
00:07:59What are you shouting for?
00:08:00What are you coming up?
00:08:02Love you coming up?
00:08:04Let's go- bara.
00:08:06What are you talking to?
00:08:07In a way, MRI?
00:08:08Okay.
00:08:09What's going on then?
00:08:10ask.
00:08:11Pardon me, you lumière-yém niew?
00:08:12Virtue, k freuen org – Lucila.
00:08:14Yes POV too.
00:08:15I don't mean you'll the jail princess.
00:08:16Just leave me pudding.
00:08:17You'll have to come, prover.
00:08:18I mean in all Спасибо of your solidarity.
00:08:20Hey, beautiful Musik.
00:08:21Esther.
00:08:22Let's golly.
00:08:23Give me peace.
00:08:24Deux последanh, stay with her stepkraft,
00:08:26Pastor Krim, you have been found guilty of adultery.
00:08:35We are loathe to invoke the full penalty of the law.
00:08:39Full?
00:08:40Reveal the name of him that tempted you.
00:08:45No.
00:08:48Master Dillard, Pastor, you know best what arguments to use to prevail upon her to speak his name.
00:08:54Would the nature of woman to force her to lay open her hot secret before so great a multitude of...
00:08:59The shame lay in the commission of the sin, not in the showing of it.
00:09:03Someone must deal with a sinner.
00:09:05Shall it be you or I?
00:09:14Poor Master Dillard, it is a shame that such a scandal should come upon his congregation.
00:09:19Pastor Krim, I beg you to speak out the name of your fellow sinner.
00:09:28Be not silent from any mistaken pity for him, for your silence compels him to add hypocrisy to sin.
00:09:37Though he has not the courage to grasp it for himself, for the peace of his soul.
00:09:42Do not deny him the comfort of an honest confession.
00:09:49Even though he were to step down from a high place to share your shame.
00:09:57Speak, woman, speak!
00:09:59Aye!
00:10:00Speak!
00:10:01Speak!
00:10:02No!
00:10:02No, never!
00:10:04I wish I could bear his agony as well as mine.
00:10:08Esther Krim, so that all men may know you are guilty of the sin of adultery and shun you of evil.
00:10:27It is now ordered that you shall wear upon your bosom for the rest of your natural life the scarlet letter A.
00:10:38A wise sentence.
00:10:43She will be a living sermon against sin.
00:10:46But she can cover the mark with her hand and stroll about as bold as ever.
00:10:50True.
00:10:51It would be better if they put the brand of the hot iron on her forehead.
00:10:55That she could not hide.
00:10:56Let her cover the mark as she will.
00:10:58The pain of it will always be in her heart.
00:11:00Do you remember her point at the spot?
00:11:06Why don't you see it?
00:11:09To read her video else.
00:11:11I'll see you later on!
00:11:12Bye!
00:11:13Bye!
00:11:17Bye!
00:11:19Bye!
00:11:19Bye!
00:11:20Bye!
00:11:29Bye!
00:12:29You should not have come here.
00:12:35Hester, I cannot keep silence.
00:12:37I will not see you go through life of that infamous brand while people look upon me with reverence.
00:12:43I must reveal myself for what I am.
00:12:45No, no, Arthur.
00:12:47It would make my burden only the heavier to see you dishonored.
00:12:50How can I stand in my pulpit and meet the eyes of the people who are hungry for truth, knowing in my soul that I am a living lie?
00:12:59Hester, we must marry.
00:13:05Think not of us.
00:13:07Your duty is with the people.
00:13:09They have entrusted their very souls to your care.
00:13:12If we destroy their faith, why will they turn?
00:13:15What will they do?
00:13:17What can a ruined soul like mine do towards the redemption of other souls?
00:13:22You have repented.
00:13:24Your life is not less holy than it appears in their eyes.
00:13:28To destroy their faith would be of greater sin.
00:13:30And it would only shatter the love we bear each other.
00:13:36No, Arthur.
00:13:37It cannot be.
00:13:41But what has it become of you?
00:13:43My salvation and yours can come only from heaven.
00:13:49Our very lives must be a living penance.
00:13:52It is God's will.
00:13:56His will be done.
00:14:00Bless you, Hester.
00:14:06And may you find peace.
00:14:09May you find peace.
00:14:18Hester.
00:14:20Hester, what's the matter?
00:14:21It's nothing.
00:14:22It's been such a trying day.
00:14:26And I'm tired.
00:14:28Please.
00:14:30Please leave me alone.
00:14:33The story is a strange one.
00:14:55Since the divine hand of Providence guided you here, I bid you welcome.
00:14:59Thank you, Sire.
00:15:01Sign the record.
00:15:07Here.
00:15:07I'd like to do.
00:15:08Here.
00:15:21Thank you, Lord.
00:15:21Thank you, Sire.
00:15:22I've won't be here.
00:15:25Thank you, Sire.
00:15:25Thank you, Sire.
00:15:26Thank you, Sire.
00:15:26And it's been such a long time to me.
00:15:28Thank you, Sire.
00:15:29Thank you, Sire.
00:15:29Oh, a doctor of medicine?
00:15:50Fortunately, it was my skill in that science that won the friendship of the Indians, and
00:15:56enabled me to make my way here.
00:15:58The colony is indeed fortunate.
00:16:00We have long needed a skilled man of medicine.
00:16:04Now, where can I find lodging?
00:16:07The tavern is already filled.
00:16:10Uh, well, that's good, sir, he is indeed a problem.
00:16:17Oh, Master Dimmersdale.
00:16:19Master Dimmersdale.
00:16:21Yes, sir.
00:16:24Reverend Dimmersdale, this is Dr. Roger Chillingwood.
00:16:26I bid you welcome.
00:16:28Master Dimmersdale, is there not an unoccupied room where you dwell at Mistress Crackstone's
00:16:33house?
00:16:34Yes, sir, there is.
00:16:35I am sure that Mistress Crackstone will be pleased to let you have it.
00:16:39I'll gladly take you there.
00:16:41good to hear that you are a doctor.
00:16:48Mistress Prynne has suffered much today.
00:16:51Will you attend her?
00:16:52As soon as I secure my lodging.
00:16:54It will be an act of kindness.
00:16:56And that will give me pleasure, indeed.
00:16:57One that will give me pleasure, indeed.
00:16:58Thank you, sir.
00:16:59Thank you, sir.
00:19:01I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even have prayed for it, were it fit as such as I should pray for anything.
00:20:20I'm very proud to ask.
00:20:21Theへet is perfect with one as old as I.
00:20:22You know I was frank.
00:20:23I thought no love for you or pretended any.
00:20:25It was my folly and your weakness.
00:20:28So between you and me the scale hangs fairly balanced.
00:20:35But Hester, a man who lives wronged us both.
00:20:38Who is he?
00:20:40That you shall never know.
00:20:45Never.
00:20:47Walk the earth, I'll find him.
00:20:50If he be in hell, I'll follow him.
00:20:53No, no.
00:20:54The fault is mine.
00:20:55You must not harm him.
00:20:57Have no fear.
00:20:58I shall not betray him to the law.
00:21:01Let him hide himself in outward honor if he may.
00:21:04Nonetheless, he shall not escape me.
00:21:09Roger, Prin, I...
00:21:11Prin.
00:21:11Roger, Prin lives no more.
00:21:20I demand of you that you breathe not to a human soul
00:21:23that you did ever call me husband.
00:21:26Henceforth, I shall be known as Roger Chillingworth.
00:21:31Why not announce yourself openly and cast me off at once?
00:21:35Because I care not for the dishonor
00:21:37that follows the husband of a faithless woman.
00:21:39Therefore, let me be known to the world
00:21:43as one already dead.
00:21:46I will keep your secret.
00:21:49As you've kept his, I hope.
00:21:56And now, Hester,
00:21:58I leave you alone.
00:22:00Alone with your infant
00:22:02and your shame.
00:22:09It would be easier to take the wheel off
00:22:32if we remove the water casks.
00:22:38Quiet.
00:22:39I was about to do so.
00:22:55This work would go much faster
00:22:56if there were my helper a man
00:22:57instead of a midget.
00:22:59Oh, yea?
00:23:00Aye.
00:23:01My name is Samson
00:23:03and I'm as strong as my name be too.
00:23:05Sayest thou.
00:23:06Sayest I.
00:23:09Couldst thou unaided support the cart?
00:23:11Of a certainty.
00:23:12Then position myself.
00:23:13Hey!
00:23:33Hey!
00:23:34It will take but a moment.
00:23:41Is there not a void left?
00:23:50I have finished.
00:23:51Good wife, use mine.
00:23:52Oh, thank you.
00:23:55Thank you, Jane.
00:23:56What is this world coming to?
00:23:58Just look at this.
00:24:00Only five years old
00:24:01and beginning to wear already.
00:24:03I think five years wear
00:24:04is good enough.
00:24:05That's the trouble with you, young folk.
00:24:07You have no sense of good or bad.
00:24:09Well said, Mrs. Abigail.
00:24:11When I was a girl,
00:24:12things were very different.
00:24:14Is this graceful?
00:24:15Only last week,
00:24:16Thomas Cook was seen
00:24:17kissing his wife on the Sabbath.
00:24:19Oh, is it so sinful
00:24:20to love a wife on the Lord's Day?
00:24:21For shame.
00:24:23That's a workaday, beauty.
00:24:24Take heed, young woman,
00:24:26lest you end up
00:24:27like yon miserable sinner.
00:24:28I always said
00:24:33her punishment
00:24:34was much too light.
00:24:37Hello.
00:24:41Hello.
00:24:42She has great skill
00:24:44with a needle.
00:24:45I would that I could
00:24:46employ her to make
00:24:46my wedding garments.
00:24:48Wedding garments?
00:24:49It is enough that
00:24:50honest folk let her
00:24:51earn her livelihood
00:24:52with her needles.
00:24:53But to permit her
00:24:54to sew on wedding garments,
00:24:55well, that would be
00:24:57a nil omen.
00:25:03Oh, were you, dear?
00:25:04Picking flowers.
00:25:06Aren't they lovely?
00:25:08Who made the flowers, mother?
00:25:10God, dear.
00:25:12Who made me?
00:25:13God, the Heavenly Father,
00:25:15made all things.
00:25:17I found the flowers
00:25:18in the field.
00:25:19Where did you find me?
00:25:21I found you
00:25:23on a rose bush.
00:25:23Oh, you run on, dear.
00:25:28All right.
00:25:32Look at that child
00:25:33dancing like a heathen.
00:25:35Like mother, like child.
00:25:37It would be better
00:25:38if that young one
00:25:39were given over
00:25:39to a more God-fearing
00:25:41woman for training.
00:25:44Move!
00:25:45Move!
00:25:45Move!
00:25:46Move!
00:25:47Move!
00:25:48Move!
00:25:49Move!
00:25:49Move!
00:25:49Move!
00:25:50Move!
00:25:51Move!
00:25:52Say, Master Hawking.
00:25:54Oh.
00:25:55Will you repair my basket?
00:25:56Oh, it'll be a pleasure.
00:25:58quite heavy.
00:25:59Mr. Billings was ill.
00:26:00I did her washing also.
00:26:03Hey!
00:26:06It will take but a moment.
00:26:08Oh.
00:26:10Oh.
00:26:16Move!
00:26:17Move!
00:26:18Move!
00:26:19Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
00:26:27What are you doing here?
00:26:29Marching.
00:26:31Go away! You cannot play with us.
00:26:37Go away!
00:26:42Try, try, try!
00:26:44Stop it! Stop it!
00:26:47There you are, Mr. Sprint. It's as good as new.
00:27:06Stop it!
00:27:09You should be ashamed of yourself.
00:27:11She stormed it. She complains.
00:27:17Didgerie! Come here!
00:27:25Who did it?
00:27:26She did it!
00:27:28You little heathen! I'll teach you!
00:27:32Look to your own children, mistress. My child was not to blame.
00:27:35Yours is the blame.
00:27:36If you were an honest, God-fearing woman and brought your child up in a proper manner, this would never happen.
00:27:42Say what you will about me. I can tolerate your insults.
00:27:45But lay not a hand on my child or you will rue it.
00:27:47How dare you speak like that to me!
00:27:49If you taught your child its proper place, there would be no trouble.
00:27:53Because my children know better than to have anything to do with your...
00:27:57Dreat!
00:27:58You're a disgrace to the colony.
00:28:00And your child will end just like you.
00:28:02It would be a blessing if she were taken away from you and brought up in a Christian manner.
00:28:07Silence, Mrs. Abigail!
00:28:08Silence, Mrs. Abigail!
00:28:09I was bertelling the silence!
00:28:10Silence, Mrs. Abigail!
00:28:11Silence, Mrs. Abigail!
00:28:12I said enough.
00:28:17Thank you, Master Dimmesdale.
00:28:23Come here.
00:28:34It is a strange child.
00:28:38It is easy to see her mother in her.
00:28:42I wonder if by studying the child one could learn who the father might be.
00:28:54You take the burdens of your flock too much to heart.
00:28:59Your help won't permit it.
00:29:02All right, Roger.
00:29:04I will be all right.
00:29:08There, there.
00:29:09Don't cry.
00:29:10Mother!
00:29:11Why won't they let me play with them?
00:29:12No!
00:29:13No!
00:29:14Mother!
00:29:15I want to play too!
00:29:16Well, dear.
00:29:17You love your mother, don't you?
00:29:18Of course I do.
00:29:19Well, you would not want to go out and play and leave me all alone, would you?
00:29:20Of course.
00:29:21I like to play too.
00:29:22Do you?
00:29:23Of course I do.
00:29:24Well, you would not want to go out and play and leave me all alone, would you?
00:29:26Of course.
00:29:27Of course.
00:29:28I like to play too.
00:29:29Do you?
00:29:30Of course.
00:29:31Of course.
00:29:32Do you?
00:29:33Of course I do.
00:29:34And we'll not let them play with us either, will we?
00:29:36No.
00:29:37And we'll play the soldier too, yes!
00:29:51And I'll be the Captain!
00:29:55Yes.
00:29:58And I'll be the captain.
00:30:00The captain.
00:30:04Here's your torch.
00:30:08But where is yours?
00:30:14Boom!
00:30:15Boom!
00:30:16Boom!
00:30:17Boom!
00:30:18Boom!
00:30:19Boom!
00:30:20Boom!
00:30:21Boom!
00:30:22Boom!
00:30:23Boom!
00:30:24Boom!
00:30:25Boom!
00:30:27Boom!
00:30:28Boom!
00:30:29Boom!
00:30:30Boom!
00:30:31Boom!
00:30:32Boom!
00:30:33Boom!
00:30:41His Excellency, Governor Bellingham demands your immediate attendance.
00:30:45Well, but what does he want me for?
00:30:47I do not know.
00:30:48Make haste.
00:30:50I'll be there as soon as I change my dress.
00:30:53Very well.
00:30:54Mr. Prince.
00:30:55The point has been discussed whether we do well to trust your child to the guidance of one who has stumbled and fallen.
00:31:04The child needs to be instructed in the truths of heaven and earth.
00:31:05And what can you do for her in this way?
00:31:06What can you do for her in this way?
00:31:07I can teach my child what I've learned from this.
00:31:08What can you do for her in this way?
00:31:09I can teach my child what I've learned from this.
00:31:10Woman.
00:31:11Woman.
00:31:12Woman.
00:31:13Woman.
00:31:14Woman.
00:31:15Woman.
00:31:16Woman.
00:31:17Woman.
00:31:18Woman.
00:31:19Woman.
00:31:20Woman.
00:31:21Woman.
00:31:22Woman.
00:31:23It is because of the stain which that letter indicates we would transfer the child to other
00:31:24hands.
00:31:25Nevertheless, this badge has taught me.
00:31:26It daily teaches me lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better.
00:31:28Hmm.
00:31:29We shall judge for ourselves.
00:31:30Oh, Master Dimmersdale.
00:31:31Oh, Master Dimmersdale.
00:31:32Examine this child and see whether she has such training as before.
00:31:33I can teach my child what I've learned from this.
00:31:38Woman.
00:31:39It is because of the stain which that letter indicates we would transfer the child to other
00:31:44hands.
00:31:45Nevertheless, this badge has taught me.
00:31:46It daily teaches me lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better.
00:31:51Hmm.
00:31:52We shall judge for ourselves.
00:31:55Oh, Master Dimmersdale, examine this child and see whether she has such training as before.
00:32:01She fits one of her age.
00:32:02Come here, John.
00:32:03What's your name?
00:32:04Perrault.
00:32:05Can you tell me who created you?
00:32:08Nobody.
00:32:09But they found me on a road trip.
00:32:10This is awful.
00:32:11Uh, we need information.
00:32:12Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:32:14wanting to, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:32:23Oh, no, no, no, no, I think I'm unwanna by you, you're all afân, right?
00:32:27But this is not just a trick.
00:32:28but then I will take my part where my family will look the right background in this family.
00:32:30We need inquire no further.
00:32:32For the child's welfare, she shall be taken out of your charge.
00:32:36No, no, no.
00:32:37She's mine.
00:32:39God gave her to me in place of all the things he's taken from me.
00:32:42She's my happiness and my punishment, too.
00:32:45You cannot take her.
00:32:47My poor woman, the child shall be well cared for.
00:32:51Far better than you can do it.
00:32:53God gave her into my keeping and I will not give her up.
00:32:57You speak for me.
00:32:59You are my pastor.
00:33:01You know me better than these men.
00:33:02You know what a mother's rights are.
00:33:04Speak for me.
00:33:05Don't let them take my baby away.
00:33:13There is truth in what she says.
00:33:16God gave her the child.
00:33:17And there is a sacredness in that relation.
00:33:21Make that plain, Master Dillersdale.
00:33:24The Heavenly Father has sent this child as a blessing.
00:33:29And also as a punishment.
00:33:32A constant reminder of her fall from grace.
00:33:36This child was meant above all things else to keep a mother's soul alive.
00:33:42For Hester Prynne's sake, then.
00:33:45And no less for the poor child's sake.
00:33:47Let us leave them as Providence has seen fit to place them.
00:33:51You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness.
00:34:06You will leave the matter as it now stands.
00:34:16Providing you send the child to Reverend Dillersdale for proper Christian training.
00:34:22It shall be done.
00:34:30Bartholomew, will thou please go away?
00:34:34Ingrace, I am trying to aid thee.
00:34:36I have done my courting these past five years without thy aid.
00:34:42And I do not need it now.
00:34:44Five years and no progress.
00:34:48It is well nigh impossible to court a woman with her children always present.
00:34:53A mere trifle.
00:34:55Sayeth thou.
00:34:57Sayeth I.
00:34:58If thou wilt but let me speak for thee, the bans will be posted on tomorrow.
00:35:08Of a certainty?
00:35:10Of a certainty.
00:35:13Remember, I will be the spokesman.
00:35:17Thou art a friend, indeed.
00:35:24Look to your appearance.
00:35:28Oh, thank you, Master Bartholomew.
00:35:38Won't you come in?
00:35:44Thou art of great aid, indeed.
00:35:48A mere trifle.
00:35:49Uh, mistress Crackstone, uh, I have come on an affair of the heart.
00:36:08Won't you sit down, Master Bartholomew?
00:36:10Abigail.
00:36:33For well nigh five years,
00:36:36did you read humidity come here
00:36:48study your catechism
00:36:52for five years a man has
00:37:04a rare coincidence
00:37:31it is the self-same courting trumpet my first husband used
00:37:35when he asked me to marry him
00:37:37what did you say
00:37:51what did you say
00:38:03i said for well nigh five years someone has loved me
00:38:07dearly excellent proceed
00:38:12i said he is no longer content to worship thee
00:38:28in silence
00:38:29what did she say
00:38:32she said old master
00:38:34but on a mule
00:38:35i said
00:38:46has he your permission to speak to you
00:38:48on a question that is close to his heart
00:38:50what did she say
00:38:53she said speak with an open heart
00:38:56here
00:38:59will you marry me
00:39:11no
00:39:14she said no
00:39:18oh
00:39:19good day
00:39:38good day doctor
00:39:40i see you've been gathering herbs
00:39:42there's to make medicine for master dimmer's day
00:39:44poor man
00:39:45people do say he is much too saintly to remain long on this earth
00:39:48how is he today
00:39:49as well as could be expected
00:39:51it is a blessing they dwell together
00:39:56only his constant attention sustains the minister's health
00:40:00a touching devotion
00:40:02but what is more noble than a loyal friend
00:40:05aye
00:40:06what is more no
00:40:30is that you roger
00:40:33how are you feeling this afternoon
00:40:47no better
00:40:48ah no worse
00:40:51ah have patience my friend
00:40:53what a peculiar looking herb
00:40:56where did you find it
00:40:58in the graveyard
00:41:00on a grave that had no market to commemorate the dead man
00:41:05save these dismal leaves
00:41:08perhaps it grew from his path
00:41:14and carries some hideous secret
00:41:18that he had done better to confess during his lifetime
00:41:21perhaps he earnestly desired it
00:41:25but could not
00:41:27why not
00:41:29some men are kept silent by their very natures
00:41:34they shrink from showing their sins to the eyes of man
00:41:38even that is better
00:41:40than to suffer the hellish tortures of a guilty conscience
00:41:44may be so
00:41:51may be so
00:41:54Arthur
00:41:58as one in charge of your physical well-being
00:42:02have all your ills been laid fairly open to me
00:42:05have all your ills been laid fairly open to me
00:42:09what do you mean
00:42:10why do you ask
00:42:11a bodily sickness
00:42:13is often but the symptom of a spiritual alarm
00:42:17love
00:42:18if you would have me heal
00:42:20the bodily evil
00:42:21you must firstly open the trouble in your soul
00:42:24if it be the soul's disease
00:42:27then I commit myself to the one physician of the soul
00:42:30not to you
00:42:34I am sorry
00:42:41forgive me Arthur
00:42:44there is a woman
00:42:49who has none of the misery
00:42:51of a hidden sinfulness
00:42:55is she less miserable
00:42:57think you
00:42:58for the scarlet letter on her bosom
00:43:01I do believe it
00:43:06is Master Dimmondale home?
00:43:11yes
00:43:12I brought little Pearl for her lesson in catechism
00:43:14master Dimmondale
00:43:33yes
00:43:35mistress Prynne has brought the child for her lesson
00:43:38oh thank you Abigail
00:43:40I leave you with your pupils
00:43:47you won't please your mother do you not?
00:44:06yes
00:44:07Master Dimmondale
00:44:09come to me my child
00:44:29now pay heed to what I teach you
00:44:31yes Master Dimmondale
00:44:34God is the heavenly father
00:44:36he's the father of all children
00:44:38but they have a real father
00:44:41I want one too
00:44:46if
00:44:47if it will make you feel any happier
00:44:49think of me as your father
00:44:52I am as a father to all my flock
00:44:59do you know you Liz?
00:45:00I know that one
00:45:09what is it?
00:45:10it's the great letter A
00:45:11how do you know?
00:45:12God's mother always ran to hear
00:45:15against thee, thee only have I sinned
00:45:28and done this evil in thy sight
00:45:30that thou might be justified when thou speak
00:45:33and be clear when thou judge
00:45:36behold thou desirest truth in the inward part
00:45:40and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know thy wisdom
00:45:45behold I was shapen in iniquity
00:45:47and in sin did my mother conceive me
00:45:50purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean
00:45:53wash me and I shall be whiter than snow
00:45:56hide thy face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity
00:46:01create in me a clean heart O God
00:46:04and renew a right spirit within me
00:46:07cast me not away from thy presence
00:46:09and take not the Holy Spirit from me
00:46:12restore unto me the joy of thy salvation
00:46:15and uphold me with thy free spirit
00:46:18then will I teach transgressors thy way
00:46:21and sinners shall be converted unto thee
00:46:24deliver me my blood guiltiness O God
00:46:27and thou guardest my salvation
00:46:29and my tongue shall sing aloud as I write it
00:46:32O Lord open thou my lips
00:46:35and my mouth shall show forth I pray
00:46:38for thou desirest not sacrifice
00:46:40else would I give it
00:46:42thou demightest not
00:46:43Thine eyes were closed
00:46:44I was that way
00:46:46I guess how thou knowest away to heaven
00:46:48so well thou couldst find it with thine eyes closed
00:46:50Do good in thy good pleasure unto thine
00:46:55build thou the walls of Jerusalem
00:46:58then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of the righteous
00:47:03with burnt offering and whole burnt offering
00:47:06then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar
00:47:13There is one who is ill and not with us this day
00:47:17Heavenly Father deliver thy child who is ill and not with us this day
00:47:34If it be thy will to take one of us
00:47:38Take me
00:47:40I who wear the black garments of the priesthood
00:47:45am utterly a pollution and a lie
00:47:48Fare this righteous woman and take me
00:47:51the vilest of sinners
00:47:53and an abomination in thy sight
00:47:56Let the words of my mouth be acceptable unto the ill God
00:48:01my strength and my redeemer
00:48:03to try to draw奴 pi
00:48:04Let the human and the darkness
00:48:06are a solo
00:48:11You are the one who is it
00:48:12than Yahweh
00:48:13You are the one who is living
00:48:14in thy habit
00:48:15Let the human and the darkness
00:48:16are you
00:48:17Now I have been to you
00:48:18I am to you
00:48:19I am to you
00:48:20I am to you
00:48:21I am to you
00:48:22I am to you
00:48:23I am to you
00:48:24You are to be
00:48:27An inspired sermon, a godly youth. He is indeed a saint.
00:48:37God cannot refuse his prayers. Mistress Allerton must soon be well.
00:48:41Yes, indeed. Good day.
00:48:46If our good pastor beholds such sinfulness in his own white soul,
00:48:50what horrid spectacle would he see in thine?
00:48:53Mother! Yes, dear? Mother, may I tell Mr. Allerton, the minister prays for her?
00:49:14Yes, dear. We'll tell her tonight. We'll make her very happy.
00:49:23Mother, may I leave before it's gone?
00:49:25I'll not leave you alone.
00:49:29It won't be for long.
00:49:31The doctor will be gone.
00:49:33I'll leave before it's gone.
00:49:35I'll not leave you alone.
00:49:37It won't be for long.
00:49:39The doctor will be gone.
00:49:41I'll leave before it's gone.
00:49:43I'll leave you alone.
00:49:45It won't be for long.
00:49:47The doctor will soon be here.
00:49:49Well, I will you come. Here, drink this. To make you strong.
00:49:53Esther, I am greatly involved you. Will you forgive me?
00:49:59Oh, shh.
00:50:01Oh, shh.
00:50:03Oh, shh.
00:50:05Oh, shh.
00:50:07Oh, shh.
00:50:09Oh, shh.
00:50:11Oh, shh.
00:50:13Oh, shh.
00:50:15Oh, shh.
00:50:17Oh, shh.
00:50:19Oh, shh.
00:50:21Oh, shh.
00:50:23Oh, shh.
00:50:25Oh, shh.
00:50:27Oh, shh.
00:50:29Oh, shh.
00:50:31Oh, shh.
00:50:33Oh, shh.
00:50:35Oh, shh.
00:50:37Oh, shh.
00:50:39Ah, you're looking better this evening.
00:50:41Our minister's prayers are beginning to bear fruit.
00:50:43For these prayers, and Hester Priem's broth,
00:50:47It's no miracle I recover.
00:50:59I hear good tidings of you on all hands.
00:51:03Only yesterday the council was debating as to whether the scarlet leather should be taken off your bosom.
00:51:08Were I worthy to be rid of it, it would fall off of its own nature.
00:51:12But if it suits you better, then wear it.
00:51:17Good night, Mrs. Allison. I will see you tomorrow.
00:51:23Good night, Mr. Sprint.
00:51:30We have treated her most unkindly.
00:51:35No one ever went near her, save Mr. Dennis Dale, when he only went out of duty to herself.
00:51:47Yes, I am convinced daily he has done much for her soul.
00:51:56It's nine o'clock and all dwells.
00:52:02Light out! Light out!
00:52:08Dine o'clock in all dwells.
00:52:09Dine o'clock in all dwells.
00:52:10Dine o'clock in all dwells.
00:52:15Dine o'clock in all dwells.
00:52:25No.
00:52:26Dine o'clock in all dwells.
00:53:00Heavenly Father, behold in me you see me, I have sinned before heaven and in thy sight.
00:53:15Esther, Esther Prynne, is that you?
00:53:26Yes.
00:53:27Come up.
00:53:28Come here.
00:53:29You have both been here before, but I was not with you.
00:53:33Father, have you not found peace?
00:53:37No, nothing but despair.
00:53:39But the people reverence you.
00:53:40Does that bring you no comfort?
00:53:41More miserably.
00:53:42When I look inward and see the black reality of what they idolize, I would their reverence
00:53:46would turn to scorn and to hatred.
00:53:48You've wrong yourself.
00:53:49Your sin is left behind you long ago.
00:53:55You've wronged yourself.
00:53:56Your sin is left behind you long ago.
00:54:02Look.
00:54:03Look.
00:54:04It's a letter A.
00:54:05Give it to heaven to proclaim my guilt.
00:54:06Jesus is strong.
00:54:07Come, Arthur.
00:54:08Come.
00:54:09You should not stand here.
00:54:10No.
00:54:11No.
00:54:12No.
00:54:13No, no.
00:54:14Now I stand where I should have stood five years ago.
00:54:18By your side.
00:54:19Who's there?
00:54:20Your good friend Roger Chillingworth.
00:54:21What did you know I was here?
00:54:22I knew nothing of the matter.
00:54:23I was returning from the bedside of Mistress Allerton.
00:54:28Oh, no.
00:54:29No.
00:54:30No, no.
00:54:31You're not here.
00:54:32You're not.
00:54:33You're not here.
00:54:34No, no.
00:54:35No.
00:54:36No.
00:54:37No, no.
00:54:38No, no.
00:54:39Now I stand where I should have stood five years ago.
00:54:42By your side.
00:54:44Who's there?
00:54:45Your good friend Roger Chillingworth.
00:54:47How did you know I was here?
00:54:48I knew nothing of the matter.
00:54:49My good friend, surely the Lord's work does not demand that one even so piet as you
00:55:04should attend his flock at such an unseemly hour, is this?
00:55:09You must rest, else these night whimsies will grow upon you.
00:55:14Come, let me take you home.
00:55:19Good day, Mistress Prince. You sent for me?
00:55:38Yes.
00:55:43So dear, run out and play.
00:55:46All right, I'm good to be here.
00:55:49Your mistress Hester has a word for old Roger Chillingworth.
00:56:01Speak freely and I will answer.
00:56:04Five years ago, you made me pledge secrecy to the fact that you were my husband.
00:56:11In doing so, I was false to the only man to whom I should have been true.
00:56:14What choice had you?
00:56:18My finger pointed that this man would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon.
00:56:24Better had it been so.
00:56:26What evil have I done to the man that he lives and all is owing to me?
00:56:34You keep him alive only to feed your vengeance.
00:56:37You burrow and wrinkle in his heart.
00:56:40You cause him to die daily a living death.
00:56:42And still, he knows you not.
00:56:46Better he had died at once.
00:56:49Have you not tortured him enough?
00:56:51No.
00:56:53No!
00:56:55I live only for that.
00:56:58Be once more human.
00:57:00You have it at your will to pardon.
00:57:02Do not reject that privilege.
00:57:04No, Hester.
00:57:06Never.
00:57:08Very well.
00:57:10Do what you will.
00:57:13That he shall know you in your true life.
00:57:15May I not do something for you?
00:57:28No, no.
00:57:30I'll be all right.
00:57:35Just going for my walk.
00:57:45Mrs. Crackstone.
00:57:56Oh!
00:57:58I'm seeking Master Sampson.
00:58:00He said he would be here.
00:58:01Won't you sit down and wait for him?
00:58:03What is this?
00:58:20It is nothing at all.
00:58:22Nothing at all?
00:58:23My best friend and the woman I love.
00:58:26Ashamed.
00:58:26I was a snake in the grass.
00:58:28Oh, be calm, Sampson.
00:58:29I can explain.
00:58:30There is not to explain.
00:58:31You know full well it is a sin for a man to behold a woman's nether garment.
00:58:38Sampson.
00:58:39Quiet woman.
00:58:40Thou hast been dishonest.
00:58:42Thou hast one spark of manhood in thee.
00:58:45Thou wilt marry this woman.
00:58:48Aye.
00:58:49It would be the honorable thing to do.
00:58:52But thou lovest her.
00:58:53Thou marry her.
00:58:54After thou hast seen her nether garment.
00:58:56Oh.
00:59:01But thou didst see them also.
00:59:09So I did.
00:59:11But Master Bartholomew did see them first.
00:59:14True.
00:59:17Thou must marry the woman.
00:59:18I shall ask the Reverend Demersdale to post the bands.
00:59:30You will have to wait for him.
00:59:32He's gone for his walk in the woods.
00:59:33Oh.
00:59:53Arthur.
00:59:55Arthur Demersdale.
00:59:57I've been looking for you, Pearl, Pearl dear, don't go too far.
01:00:05I'm not.
01:00:10Hester, Hester, you little know what a relief it is to see you alone.
01:00:17Had I but one friend, or even an enemy, who knew me for what I am,
01:00:24my soul might keep itself alive.
01:00:27But I am that friend, Arthur, and you have such an enemy under the same roof with you.
01:00:35An enemy under the same roof? What do you mean?
01:00:40Oh, Arthur, forgive me. Truth was the one virtue to which I held back,
01:00:46except when your good name was questioned. Then I consented a deception.
01:00:51I must tell you, that old man, Roger Chillingworth, was my husband.
01:01:06I might have known. The secret was told me in the natural recoil of my heart.
01:01:14Why didn't you tell me this before?
01:01:26He pledged me to silence.
01:01:32Hester, I can bear no more.
01:01:47Feel strong, Hester. Advise me what to do.
01:01:51You must dwell no longer with this man.
01:01:54How can I avoid it?
01:01:56Does the universe lie within comfort of yonder town?
01:02:01There's the broad pathway of the sea.
01:02:03If it brought you here, it will bear you back again.
01:02:05Begin life anew. There's happiness beyond.
01:02:08No, it cannot be.
01:02:10I have not the courage to venture into a strange land alone.
01:02:15You shall not go alone.
01:02:21Hester.
01:02:22Even now, even now there's a vessel in the harbor.
01:02:24It sails the day after election.
01:02:26I will secretly engage passage.
01:02:28Hester, this is already the new life.
01:02:31Why didn't we think of it sooner?
01:02:34Let us not lift back.
01:02:35The past is gone.
01:02:45Hey, boys.
01:02:46We're going to drink to the governor.
01:02:57Hey, Edward.
01:02:58Bring a small package of ale.
01:03:00Yes.
01:03:01Will you gentlemen join us in a drink?
01:03:07Nay.
01:03:08I am a most unhappy man.
01:03:10What?
01:03:11On election day?
01:03:12Why, this is a time for merrymaking.
01:03:16Not for me.
01:03:18He is soon to be married.
01:03:20Oh, that's a mere trifle.
01:03:23Why, I've got a wife in every part.
01:03:27What?
01:03:28I, the tower to ship's master.
01:03:32And well accustomed to stormy weather.
01:03:34Well said, my boy.
01:03:36Well put.
01:03:37We'll have another drink.
01:03:39Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:03:40You've had enough.
01:03:41Mistress Abigail will be angry.
01:03:42That's for Abigail.
01:03:43I will be master in my own house.
01:03:46Sayest thou.
01:03:47Sayest I.
01:03:48Mother wants you.
01:03:49If you don't come immediately, she will come and fetch you.
01:03:53Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:04:14Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:04:49What's wrong with these people doing here, Mr. Green?
01:04:51They're waiting to see the procession pass.
01:04:52There'll be soldiers marching and grung.
01:05:02Good day, Mrs. I've been seeking you.
01:05:05What is it, Captain?
01:05:08Everything is in red.
01:05:10It happened for you, little girl, and one for the gentleman.
01:05:16We shall be there.
01:05:17Yes, we're going to sail on the noontide, and it should be a healthy voyage
01:05:22with the ship sergeant and this other doctor on voyage with us.
01:05:26Have you another passenger?
01:05:28Yes, I suppose you know.
01:05:31He said he was one of your parties.
01:05:34Chillingworth's name.
01:05:35He said he's a friend of the gentleman you spoke of.
01:05:38Yes, he knows him.
01:05:42Well, indeed.
01:05:42Take the children by the hand.
01:06:03Yes, my love.
01:06:35How proud is gathered to hear your election sermon?
01:06:39It could be a calamity where their faith could be destroyed.
01:06:57What do you think they will say on the morrow when they discover that their faintly pastor
01:07:03has fled with the woman of the scarlet letter?
01:07:08My friend, you are failed.
01:07:13It is well that I am failing with you.
01:07:17Stop!
01:07:19Stop!
01:07:20People of Massachusetts, ye that have deemed me holy, you that have loved me, behold in
01:07:36me the one sinner of the world.
01:07:38At last I stand where I should have stood five years ago, by the side of Hester Prynne.
01:07:42It's not true, it's not true.
01:07:43He accuses himself falsely.
01:07:45His illness has unbalanced his mind.
01:07:47No, no, at last I see clearly.
01:07:49You have seen Hester's scarlet letter and shuddered at it.
01:07:52But there was one among you whose brand of shame you have not seen.
01:07:56Quiet madman.
01:07:57Now, at death's door I stand before you.
01:08:03Look again at Hester's scarlet letter.
01:08:05It is the shadow of what I bear in my own heart.
01:08:09Stand any here who question God's judgment of a sinner,
01:08:13then behold the dreadful witness of it.
01:08:16Pearl, my child, will you kiss me?
01:08:41Shall we not meet again?
01:08:42Shall we not spend our immortal lives together?
01:08:47Look far into eternity with those bright dying eyes and tell me.
01:08:53What do you see?
01:08:56Peace, Hester.
01:08:59Peace.
01:09:12Peace.
01:09:13Peace.
01:09:14Peace.
01:09:15Peace.
01:09:16Peace.
01:09:17Peace.
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01:09:22Peace.
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01:09:38Peace.
01:09:39Peace.
01:09:40Peace.
01:09:41Peace.
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