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The Scarlet Letter
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by George Loane Tucker and Joseph W. Smiley

Cast: King Baggot [Reverend Dimmesdale], Lucille Younge (Lucille Young) [Hester Prynne], William Robert Daly [Roger], Anita Hendrie, Robert Z. Leonard, J. Farrell MacDonald

Independent Moving Pictures Company, Incorporated [IMP] production; distributed Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Scenario by Herbert Brenon, from the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. / Released 27 April 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as The Scarlet Letter (1913).

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Listing updated: 8 September 2014.

References: Lahue-Gentlemen p. 11; Weaver-Twenty p. 38 : Website-IMDb.