- 9/9/2014
Not Rated | 1h 9min | Drama, History, Romance | 18 September 1934 (USA)
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Writer: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leonard Fields, David Silverstein
Stars: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright and Henry B. Walthall
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Writer: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leonard Fields, David Silverstein
Stars: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright and Henry B. Walthall
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00:01:46Master Bartle is indeed a lucky man.
00:01:49I, his wife will be silent at least one day.
00:01:53Waa-ee, waa-ee!
00:01:57Waa-ee, waa-ee!
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00:02:09A pretty spectacle.
00:02:11My bosom companion seated in the stock again.
00:02:15But it pains me more than thee.
00:02:18Yes, but not in the same place.
00:02:48Ah, here comes your beloved now.
00:02:51Oh, Bartholomew. Bartholomew, stand before me, please.
00:02:54Please stand before me.
00:03:00Good day, Mrs. Abigail.
00:03:01Good day, Master Bartholomew.
00:03:02Perhaps I've seen Master Sampson. I'm waiting here for him.
00:03:05Oh, look, Mother. Master Sampson's in the shop.
00:03:12Greetings, Mrs. Abigail.
00:03:14Abigail?
00:03:15Dinner!
00:03:16You had better heed the teaching of the Reverend Geneseo,
00:03:19or you will end your days on a scaffold.
00:03:25Hey, Kishima.
00:03:31Dima Bayuteva Bayorega.
00:03:34Willestate, Tadayiteshima.
00:03:37Ah.
00:03:44Good day.
00:04:03Good day, mistress. Can you serve me food and lodging?
00:04:09Lodging, we have none.
00:04:11But can you not return later for food?
00:04:13Even now, the bell summons us all to the square.
00:04:17Is it a feast day?
00:04:19Have you not heard of the scandal in the Master Denizale's church?
00:04:23From whence came you?
00:04:25From the south, where I was shipwrecked
00:04:28and spent two weary years among the heathen.
00:04:34It must gladden your heart to again be in a land
00:04:37where iniquity is searched out and punished.
00:04:40Truly.
00:04:41Even today a gentlewoman is being punished by the magistrate for adultery.
00:04:46Does her husband accuse her?
00:04:48Oh, no. No, she's a widow.
00:04:51Her husband was a learned doctor.
00:04:53The plague which was raging in London detained him,
00:04:55so he sent her on ahead.
00:04:58What happened to him?
00:05:00He must be at the bottom of the sea,
00:05:02for there have been no tidings from him in over two years.
00:05:05Being left to her own misguidance,
00:05:07his wife, Hester Prynne, went astray.
00:05:10Hester Prynne?
00:05:12It's a lie. A purer creature never lived.
00:05:15You know her?
00:05:16Know her? I'm her husband.
00:05:19Her husband's best friend.
00:05:22Who accuses her?
00:05:24Her child.
00:05:29Hester Prynne, a child?
00:05:31Aye, a little girl.
00:05:33You mean...
00:05:35Hester Prynne has born a child in the past two years?
00:05:40I do.
00:05:55It would be well for the public
00:05:57if we women had the handling of such parties as Hester Prynne.
00:06:01Well said, good wife.
00:06:03We would teach her a pretty lesson.
00:06:24A gentleman may have to look upon a gentlewoman's shame.
00:06:26But Master Doomsday, Moses and the Lord,
00:06:28command that such a she be stoned.
00:06:30Yes, but one greater than Moses said,
00:06:32He that is without sin amost cast to stone, Master Doomsday.
00:06:35You should not take the sin of one of your flock so much to heart.
00:06:38Governor Bellingham, our Lord did pardon such a one.
00:06:40He said, Go woman, and sin no more.
00:06:42Cannot we do as much?
00:06:44Oh, would walk itself be pardoned if received the penalty?
00:06:58A blessing on ye righteous people of the colony of the Massachusetts.
00:07:29Make way, good people. Make way in the King's name.
00:07:44Look, the baggage walks with the dignity of a queen.
00:07:48Has she no shame?
00:07:50Peace, peace.
00:07:52Look, the baggage walks with the dignity of a queen.
00:07:55Has she no shame?
00:07:57Peace, peace. She suffers enough.
00:08:23Master Crim, you have been found guilty of adultery.
00:08:27We are loath to invoke the full penalty of the law.
00:08:31Full?
00:08:32Reveal the name of him that tempted you.
00:08:37No.
00:08:40Master Doomsday,
00:08:41As your pastor, you know best what arguments to use
00:08:44to prevent the punishment of adultery.
00:08:46No.
00:08:48Master Doomsday,
00:08:49As your pastor, you know best what arguments to use
00:08:51to prevail upon her to speak his name.
00:08:54It is the nature of woman to force her to lay open her heart's secret
00:08:57before so great a multitude.
00:08:59The shame lay in the commission of the sin,
00:09:01not in the showing of it.
00:09:03Someone must deal with this sinner.
00:09:05Shall it be you or I?
00:09:14Poor Master Doomsday.
00:09:16It is a shame that such a scandal should come upon his congregation.
00:09:20Esther Crim,
00:09:23I beg you to speak out the name of your fellow sinner.
00:09:28Be not silent from any mistaken pity for him,
00:09:32for your silence compels him to add hypocrisy to sin,
00:09:37though he has not the courage to grasp it for himself.
00:09:41For the peace of his soul,
00:09:44do not deny him
00:09:45the comfort of an honest confession,
00:09:48even though he were to step down from a high place
00:09:51to share your shame.
00:09:56Speak, woman, speak.
00:09:58Aye, speak, speak.
00:10:01No, no, never.
00:10:04I, I wish I could bear his agony as well as mine.
00:10:16Esther Crim,
00:10:19so that all men may know you are guilty of the sin of adultery
00:10:24and shun you of evil,
00:10:26it is now ordered that you shall wear upon your bosom
00:10:29for the rest of your natural life
00:10:32the scarlet letter A.
00:10:40A wise presenter.
00:10:42She will be a living sermon against sin.
00:10:45But she can cover the mark with her hand
00:10:47and stroll about as bold as ever.
00:10:49True.
00:10:50It would be better if they put the brand of the hot iron on her forehead.
00:10:53That she could not hide.
00:10:55Let her cover the mark as she will.
00:10:57The pain of it will always be in her heart.
00:11:12Five,
00:11:15six,
00:11:42seven,
00:12:12eight.
00:12:31You should not have come here.
00:12:35Esther, I cannot keep silence.
00:12:37I will not see you go through life with that infamous brand
00:12:40while 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
00:12:53who are hungry for truth
00:12:55knowing in my soul
00:12:57that I am a living lie?
00:13:01Esther, 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, where 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 a greater sin
00:13:30and
00:13:32and it would only shatter the love we bear each other.
00:13:36No, Arthur.
00:13:37It cannot be.
00:13:41But what is to become of you?
00:13:44My salvation and yours
00:13:46can 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.
00:14:03Bless you, Esther.
00:14:06And may you find peace.
00:14:09May you
00:14:11find
00:14:13peace.
00:14:19Esther!
00:14:20Esther, what's the matter?
00:14:21It's nothing.
00:14:23It's been such a trying day
00:14:26and I'm tired.
00:14:29Please
00:14:32please leave me alone.
00:14:35Please.
00:14:52The story is a strange one.
00:14:55Since the divine hand of Providence guided you here, I bid you welcome.
00:14:59Thank you, sir.
00:15:01Sign the record.
00:15:05Here.
00:15:36Who?
00:15:37A doctor of medicine?
00:15:39Fortunately, it was my skill in that science
00:15:41that won the friendship of the Indians
00:15:44and enabled me to make my way here.
00:15:47The colony is indeed fortunate.
00:15:49We have long needed a skilled man of medicine.
00:15:53Now,
00:15:55I must go.
00:15:57Goodbye.
00:15:59Goodbye.
00:16:01Goodbye.
00:16:03Goodbye.
00:16:05Where can I find lodging?
00:16:07The tavern is already filled.
00:16:10Well, that's good, sir.
00:16:12It is indeed a problem.
00:16:16Oh, Master Dimmersdale.
00:16:19Master Dimmersdale!
00:16:23Yes, 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
00:16:31where you dwell at Mistress Crackstone's house?
00:16:34Yes, sir, there is.
00:16:36I am sure that Mistress Crackstone
00:16:38will be pleased to let you have it.
00:16:39I'll gladly take you there.
00:16:46Good 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.
00:16:57One that will give me pleasure, indeed.
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00:18:56Yes.
00:18:58Drink.
00:19:01I have thought of death, and wished for it,
00:19:04would even have prayed for it,
00:19:06were it fit that such as I should pray for anything.
00:19:10Yes.
00:19:11Yes.
00:19:14Let death be in this cup.
00:19:16I bid you think well before you see me drink it.
00:19:19Have no fear.
00:19:21My vengeance is to let you live.
00:19:25To give your medicines against palm,
00:19:28so that your burning shame
00:19:32may still blaze against your bosom.
00:19:36I will see your punishment in the eyes of men and women.
00:19:40Yea, even in the eyes of your own misbegotten child.
00:19:46So.
00:19:47So.
00:20:08Roger, I have wronged you greatly.
00:20:12We have wronged each other.
00:20:15Mine was the first wrong,
00:20:17for thinking that one so young could mate with one as old as I.
00:20:22You know I was frank.
00:20:23I felt no love for you, nor pretended any.
00:20:26True.
00:20:27It was my folly and your weakness.
00:20:29So between you and me,
00:20:31the scale hangs fairly balanced.
00:20:35But Hester,
00:20:36the man lives who has wronged us both,
00:20:39who is he?
00:20:42That you shall never know.
00:20:44Never?
00:20:46If he walk the earth,
00:20:48I'll find him.
00:20:50If he be in hell,
00:20:52I'll follow him.
00:20:53No, no.
00:20:54The fault is mine.
00:20:55You must not harm him.
00:20:56Have no fear.
00:20:58I shall not betray him to the law.
00:21:00Let him hide himself in outward honor if he may.
00:21:04Nonetheless,
00:21:06he shall not escape me.
00:21:09Roger Prynne, I...
00:21:10Prynne!
00:21:16Roger Prynne lives no more.
00:21:19I demand of you that you breathe not to a human soul
00:21:23that you did ever call me husband.
00:21:25Henceforth, I shall be known as Roger Chillingworth.
00:21:30Why not announce yourself openly and cast me off at once?
00:21:34Because I care not for the dishonor
00:21:36that follows the husband of a faithless woman.
00:21:40Therefore, let me be known to the world
00:21:43as one already dead.
00:21:46I will keep your secret.
00:21:48As you kept his, I hope.
00:21:55And now, Hester,
00:21:57I leave you alone.
00:21:59Alone with your infant
00:22:03and your shame.
00:22:06Farewell.
00:22:31It would be easier to take the wheel off
00:22:33if we removed the water casks.
00:22:37Quiet.
00:22:39I was about to do so.
00:22:54This work would go much faster with my helper, a man,
00:22:57instead of a midget.
00:22:59Oh, yea?
00:23:00Aye.
00:23:01My name is Samson, and I'm as strong as my name be token.
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 thyself.
00:23:36Hey!
00:23:39It will take but a moment.
00:23:47Is there not a board left?
00:23:49I have finished, good wife. Use mine.
00:23:51Oh, thank you.
00:23:56What is this world coming to?
00:23:58Just look at this.
00:23:59Only five years old and beginning to wear already.
00:24:02I think five years' wear is good enough.
00:24:04That's the trouble with you young folks.
00:24:06You have no sense of good or bad.
00:24:08Well said, Mrs. Abigail.
00:24:10When I was a girl, things were very different.
00:24:13Is this graceful.
00:24:15Only last week Thomas Cook was seen kissing his wife on the Sabbath.
00:24:18Oh, is it so simple to love a wife on the Lord's Day?
00:24:21For shame.
00:24:22That's her work today, beauty.
00:24:24Take heed, young woman.
00:24:25Lest you end up like yon miserable sinner.
00:24:28I always said her punishment was much too light.
00:24:34Pearl!
00:24:38Pearl!
00:24:39She has great skill with a needle.
00:24:41I would that I could employ her to make my wedding garments.
00:24:44Wedding garments?
00:24:46It is enough that honest folks let her earn her livelihood with her needles.
00:24:50But to permit her to sew on wedding garments,
00:24:53well, that would be a nil omen.
00:24:56Who are you, dear?
00:24:57Picking flowers.
00:24:59Aren't they lovely?
00:25:02Who made the flowers, Mother?
00:25:04God did.
00:25:05Who made me?
00:25:07God, the Heavenly Father, made all things.
00:25:10I found the flowers in the field.
00:25:13Where did you find me?
00:25:15I found you on a rose bush.
00:25:18Oh!
00:25:19Oh!
00:25:20Oh!
00:25:21Oh!
00:25:22Oh!
00:25:23Rose bush.
00:25:25Oh!
00:25:26You run on, dear.
00:25:28All right.
00:25:32Look at that child, dancing like a heathen.
00:25:35Like mother, like child.
00:25:37It would be better if that young one were given over to a more God-fearing woman for training.
00:25:44Boo! Boo! Boo!
00:25:46Boo! Boo! Boo!
00:25:52Say, Master Hocking.
00:25:54Oh.
00:25:55Will you repair my basket?
00:25:56Oh, it'll be a pleasure.
00:25:57Quite heavy.
00:25:58Mistress Billings was ill.
00:26:00I did her washing also.
00:26:03Hey!
00:26:06It will take but a moment.
00:26:09Oh!
00:26:14Boo! Boo! Boo!
00:26:17Boo! Boo! Boo!
00:26:20Boo! Boo! Boo!
00:26:23Oh!
00:26:26What are you doing here?
00:26:28Marching.
00:26:30Go away. You cannot play with us.
00:26:36Go away!
00:26:39Ha! Ha! Ha!
00:26:45Stop it! Stop it!
00:26:48Stop it!
00:26:54Here you are, Mistress Billings.
00:26:55It's as good as new.
00:27:03Stop it!
00:27:06Stop it!
00:27:09You should be ashamed of yourself.
00:27:11She started it. She's to blame.
00:27:20Didgeridoo, come here.
00:27:24Who did it?
00:27:25She did it.
00:27:27You little heathen. I'll teach you.
00:27:32Look to your own children, Mistress. My child was not to blame.
00:27:35Yours is to 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 insult.
00:27:45But lay not a hand on my child or you will rue it.
00:27:48How dare you speak like that to me?
00:27:50If 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...
00:27:57brat.
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, Mistress Abigail.
00:28:08I was but telling the...
00:28:09Silence, Mistress Abigail.
00:28:11That's enough.
00:28:16Thank you, Master Dimmesdale.
00:28:22Come, Liz.
00:28:33It is a strange child.
00:28:38It is easy to see her mother in her.
00:28:42I wonder...
00:28:44if by studying the child...
00:28:47one could learn who the father...
00:28:50might be.
00:28:54You take the burdens of your flock...
00:28:56too much to heart.
00:28:58Your health won't permit it.
00:29:02All right, Roger.
00:29:04I'll be all right.
00:29:15There, there.
00:29:17Don't cry.
00:29:20Mother, why won't they let me play with them?
00:29:24Now, now.
00:29:26But Mother, I want to play too.
00:29:32Pearl, dear.
00:29:33You love your mother, don't you?
00:29:35Of course I do.
00:29:36Well, you would not want to go off and play and leave me all alone, would you?
00:29:41I'd like to play too.
00:29:44Do you?
00:29:45Of course I do.
00:29:47And we'll not let them play with us either, will we?
00:29:50No.
00:29:51And we'll play soldier too.
00:29:53Yes.
00:29:56And I'll be the captain.
00:29:58And I'll be the captain.
00:30:04Here's your sword.
00:30:08But where's 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!
00:30:26Good catch!
00:30:28Boom!
00:30:29Boom!
00:30:30Boom!
00:30:31Boom!
00:30:32Boom!
00:30:40His Excellency, Governor Bellingham demands your immediate attendance.
00:30:45Well, what does he want me for?
00:30:47I do not know. Make haste.
00:30:50I'll be there as soon as I change my dress.
00:30:53Very well.
00:31:08Mr. Flynn,
00:31:11the point has been discussed whether we do well
00:31:14to trust your child with the guidance of one who has stumbled and fallen.
00:31:20A child needs to be instructed in the truths of heaven and earth.
00:31:25And what can you do for her in this way?
00:31:34I can teach my child what I've learned from this.
00:31:37Woman, it is because of the stain which that letter indicates
00:31:41we would transfer the child to other hands.
00:31:44Nevertheless, this badge has taught me, it daily teaches me,
00:31:48lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better.
00:31:52We shall judge for ourselves.
00:31:55Oh, Master Dimmesdale, examine this child
00:31:58and see whether she has such training as befits one of her age.
00:32:04Come here, child.
00:32:09What's your name?
00:32:11Heron.
00:32:14Can you tell me who created you?
00:32:22Nobody.
00:32:23Mother found me on a road trip.
00:32:25This is awful.
00:32:27We need inquire no further.
00:32:29For the child's welfare, she shall be taken out of your charge.
00:32:33No, no, no.
00:32:34She's mine.
00:32:35God gave her to me in place of all the things he's taken from me.
00:32:39She's my happiness and my punishment too.
00:32:42You cannot take her.
00:32:44My poor woman, the child shall be well cared for.
00:32:48My 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.
00:32:58You speak for me.
00:33:00You are my pastor.
00:33:01You know me better than these men.
00:33:03You know what a mother's rights are.
00:33:05Speak for me.
00:33:06Don't let them take my baby away.
00:33:14There is truth in what she says.
00:33:16God gave her the child.
00:33:18And there is a sacredness in that relation.
00:33:21Make that plain, Master Dewarsdale.
00:33:24The Heavenly Father has sent this child as a blessing.
00:33:29And also as a punishment.
00:33:31A 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 Prince's sake, then.
00:33:44And no less for the poor child's sake.
00:33:47Let us leave them as Providence has seen fit to place them.
00:34:03You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness.
00:34:12You will leave the matter as it now stands.
00:34:15Providing you send the child to Reverend Dewarsdale for proper Christian training.
00:34:23It shall be done.
00:34:30Bartholomew, willst thou please go away?
00:34:33Ingrate, I am but trying to aid thee.
00:34:37I've done my courting these past five years without thy aid.
00:34:41And I do not need it now.
00:34:44Five years and no progress.
00:34:47It will nigh impossible to court a woman with a children always present.
00:34:52A mere trifle.
00:34:55Sayeth thou.
00:34:56Sayeth I.
00:34:59If thou wilt but let me speak for thee, the band will be posted on to-morrow.
00:35:05Of a certainty?
00:35:06Of a certainty.
00:35:10Remember, I will be the spokesman.
00:35:13Thou art a friend indeed.
00:35:20Look to your appearance.
00:35:23Look to your appearance.
00:35:32Oh, thank you, Master Bartholomew.
00:35:38Won't you come in?
00:35:44Thou art of great aid indeed.
00:35:48A mere trifle.
00:35:53Mistress Crackstone, I have come on an affair of the heart.
00:36:06Won't you sit down, nasty Bartholomew?
00:36:23Abigail.
00:36:29For well nigh five years.
00:36:40Didgerid, Humility, come here.
00:36:46Steady your camels.
00:36:49Steady your catechism.
00:37:00For five years a man has...
00:37:19A rare coincidence.
00:37:21Tis the self-same courting trumpet my first husband used when he asked me to marry him.
00:37:28A rare coincidence.
00:37:30Tis the self-same courting trumpet my first husband used when he asked me to marry him.
00:37:58Don't go there.
00:38:02What did you say?
00:38:04I said, for well nigh five years someone has loved thee dearly.
00:38:10Excellent. Proceed.
00:38:20Oh, Master Bartholomew.
00:38:24I said, he is no longer content to worship thee in silence.
00:38:30What did she say?
00:38:33She said, oh, Master Bartholomew.
00:38:45I said, has he your permission to speak to you on a question that is close to his heart?
00:38:51What did she say?
00:38:53She said, speak with an open heart.
00:38:58Here.
00:39:09Will you marry me?
00:39:13No!
00:39:16She said no.
00:39:20She said no.
00:39:38Good day, gentlemen.
00:39:39Good day, Doctor. I see you've been gathering herbs.
00:39:42Yes, to make medicine for Master Dimmesday.
00:39:44Poor a man. People 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.
00:39:54It 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, what is more no...
00:40:19Is that you, Roger?
00:40:38How are you feeling this afternoon?
00:40:40No better.
00:40:42Ah, no worse.
00:40:43Ah, have patience, my friend.
00:40:47What a peculiar-looking herb.
00:40:49Where did you find it?
00:40:51In the graveyard.
00:40:53On a grave that had no marker to commemorate the dead man...
00:40:58save these dismal leaves.
00:41:05I see.
00:41:07These dismal leaves.
00:41:13Perhaps it grew from his path...
00:41:16and carries some hideous secret...
00:41:19which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.
00:41:23Perhaps he earnestly desired it...
00:41:26but could not.
00:41:28Why not?
00:41:31Some men are kept silent by their very natures.
00:41:35They 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.
00:41:52Maybe so.
00:41:58Arthur...
00:42:00as one in charge of your physical well-being...
00:42:03have all your ills been laid fairly open to me?
00:42:07What do you mean?
00:42:09Why do you ask?
00:42:11A bodily sickness...
00:42:13is often but the symptom of a spiritual alarm.
00:42:18If you would have me heal the bodily evil...
00:42:22you must firstly open the trouble in your soul.
00:42:26If it be the soul's disease...
00:42:28then I commit myself to the one physician of the soul.
00:42:33Up to you.
00:42:40I am sorry.
00:42:42Forgive me, Arthur.
00:42:48There is a woman...
00:42:50who has none of the misery...
00:42:52of a hidden sinfulness.
00:42:56Is she less miserable, think you...
00:42:59for the scarlet letter on her bosom?
00:43:04I do believe it.
00:43:09Is Master Dimmond Dale home?
00:43:11Yes.
00:43:12I've left little Pearl for her lesson in catechism.
00:43:16Master Dimmond Dale?
00:43:18Yes?
00:43:20Mistress Prynne has brought the child for her lesson.
00:43:23Oh, thank you, Abigail.
00:43:30I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:32I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:34I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:36I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:38I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:40I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:42I'm afraid I must go.
00:43:45I leave you with your pupil.
00:44:04You want to please your mother, do you not?
00:44:06Yes, Master Dimmond Dale.
00:44:15Come to me, my child.
00:44:23Now pay heed to what I teach you.
00:44:25Yes, Master Dimmond Dale.
00:44:28God is the heavenly Father.
00:44:30He's the Father of all children.
00:44:33But they have a real father.
00:44:35I want one, too.
00:44:37If it will make you feel any happier,
00:44:41think of me as your father.
00:44:47I am as a father to all my flock.
00:44:53Do you know your lesson?
00:44:55I know that one.
00:44:57I know that one.
00:44:59I know that one.
00:45:01I know that one.
00:45:03I know that one.
00:45:05I know that one.
00:45:07What is it?
00:45:09It's the great letter A.
00:45:11How do you know?
00:45:13Because Mother always reads it here.
00:45:26Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
00:45:29and done this evil in thy sight,
00:45:31that thou might be justified when thou speakest,
00:45:34and be clear when thou judgest.
00:45:36Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward part,
00:45:39and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know thy wisdom.
00:45:44Behold, 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 love.
00:46:14Amen.
00:46:15And uphold me with thy free spirit.
00:46:18Then will I teach transgressors thy way,
00:46:22and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
00:46:25Deliver me, my bloodguiltiness, O God,
00:46:27and thou guardest my salvation.
00:46:30Thy tongue shall sing aloud as I write it.
00:46:33O Lord, open thou my lips,
00:46:35and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
00:46:38For thou desirest not sacrifice,
00:46:40else would I give it.
00:46:42Thou delightest not in sin.
00:46:43Thine eyes were closed.
00:46:44I was not speaking.
00:46:46To get down on the way to heaven,
00:46:48so well thou could find it with thine eyes closed.
00:46:53Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion.
00:46:56Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
00:46:59Then 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 bullets upon thine altars.
00:47:13There is one who is ill and not with us this day.
00:47:17So let us pray that Sister Allison may soon be well.
00:47:30Heavenly Father,
00:47:32deliver thy child who is ill and not with us this day.
00:47:36If it be thy will to take one of us,
00:47:40take me.
00:47:42I who wear the black garments of the priesthood
00:47:45am utterly a pollution and a lie.
00:47:49Spare this righteous woman and take me,
00:47:51the vilest of sinners
00:47:53and an abomination in thy sight.
00:47:57Let the words of my mouth be acceptable unto thee, O God,
00:48:01my strength and my redeemer.
00:48:28An inspired sermon.
00:48:30A godly youth. He is indeed a saint.
00:48:33God cannot refuse his prayers.
00:48:35Mistress Allerton must soon be well.
00:48:37Yes, indeed.
00:48:39Good day.
00:48:41Good day.
00:48:43If our good pastor beholds such sinfulness in his own white soul,
00:48:47what horrid spectacle would he see in thine?
00:48:51Or thine.
00:48:55Or thine.
00:49:07Mother.
00:49:08Yes, dear.
00:49:09Mother, may I tell Mistress Allerton
00:49:12the minister prayed for her?
00:49:14Yes, dear. We'll tell her tonight.
00:49:16It will make her very happy.
00:49:24Good night.
00:49:43You'll find everything all right.
00:49:45Seven days before it storms.
00:49:48I'll not leave you alone.
00:49:50It won't be for long.
00:49:54I'll wait till he comes.
00:49:56Here, drink this. It will make you strong.
00:50:07Pastor, I have greatly wronged you.
00:50:11Will you forgive me?
00:50:24Ah, you're looking better this evening.
00:50:28Our minister's prayers are beginning to bear fruit.
00:50:32His prayers?
00:50:34And Hester Prim's brothel.
00:50:37It's no miracle I'm recovered.
00:50:43I'll go to bed.
00:50:45Good night.
00:50:47Good night.
00:50:54Good night.
00:51:00I hear good tidings of you on all hands.
00:51:04Only yesterday the council was debating
00:51:06as to whether the scarlet letter should be taken off your bosom.
00:51:09Well, were there to be rid of it,
00:51:11it would fall off of its own nature.
00:51:13But if it suits you better, then wear it.
00:51:17Good night, Mrs. Allison.
00:51:19I will see you tomorrow.
00:51:21Good night, Mrs. Prim.
00:51:28We have treated her most unkindly.
00:51:32No one ever went near her save Mr. Dimmesdale.
00:51:38And he only went out of duty to her as well.
00:51:43Yes, I am convinced, Daly.
00:51:47He has done much for her soul.
00:51:52He has done much for her soul.
00:51:57Nine o'clock and all's well.
00:52:04Light out.
00:52:08Light out.
00:52:11Nine o'clock and all's well.
00:52:41Ten o'clock and all's well.
00:52:46Ten o'clock.
00:53:08Heavenly Father, behold in me a sin.
00:53:12I have sinned before Heaven and in Thy sight.
00:53:16You. You have both been here before. But I was not with you.
00:53:43Father, have you not found peace? No, nothing but despair.
00:53:48But the people reverence you. Does that bring you no comfort?
00:53:51No, miserable. When I look inward and see the black reality of what they idolize, I wish their reverence would turn to scorn and to hatred.
00:54:02You have gone yourself. Your sin has left behind you long ago.
00:54:06Look! It's a letter A.
00:54:15You've been to heaven to proclaim my guilt.
00:54:18See, but it's gone. Come, Arthur, come. You should not stand here.
00:54:23No. No, no. Now I stand where I should have stood five years ago.
00:54:28By your side.
00:54:31Who's there?
00:54:37Your good friend, Roger Chillingworth.
00:54:40How did you know I was here?
00:54:43I knew nothing of the matter. I was returning from the bedside of Mrs. Allerton.
00:54:48My good friend, surely the Lord's work does not demand that one even so pious as you should attend his flock at such an unseemly hour as this.
00:55:07You must rest, else these night whimsies will grow upon you.
00:55:13Come, let me take you home.
00:55:33Good day, Mr. Sprint.
00:55:36You sent for me?
00:55:38Yes.
00:55:43So, dear, go out and play.
00:55:46All right, Mr. Sprint.
00:55:54So, 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.
00:56:10In doing so, I was false to the only man to whom I should have been true.
00:56:15What choice had you?
00:56:18My finger pointed that this man would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon.
00:56:24Better it had been so.
00:56:27What evil have I done the man?
00:56:30That he lives at all is owing to me.
00:56:34You keep him alive only to feed your vengeance.
00:56:37You burrow a wrinkle in his heart.
00:56:39You cause him to die daily a living death.
00:56:42And still he knows you not.
00:56:45Better he had died at once.
00:56:49Have you not tortured him enough?
00:56:51No.
00:56:52No!
00:56:55I live only for that.
00:56:57Be once more human.
00:56:59You have it at your will to pardon.
00:57:01Do not reject that privilege.
00:57:04No, Hester.
00:57:06Never.
00:57:08Very well.
00:57:10Do what you will.
00:57:12But he shall know you and your true life.
00:57:24May I not do something for you?
00:57:27No, no.
00:57:29I'll be all right.
00:57:34Just going for my walk.
00:57:54Mistress Crackstone.
00:57:55Oh!
00:57:58I'm seeking Master Samson.
00:57:59He said he would be here.
00:58:01Won't you sit down and wait for him?
00:58:19What is this?
00:58:20It is nothing at all.
00:58:21Nothing at all?
00:58:22My best friend and the woman I love.
00:58:25Ashamed!
00:58:27Oh, be calm, Samson.
00:58:29I can explain.
00:58:30There is naught to explain.
00:58:31You know full well it is a sin for a man to behold a woman's...
00:58:35...nether garments.
00:58:37Samson!
00:58:38Quiet, woman.
00:58:39Thou hast been dishonored.
00:58:42Thou hast one spark of manhood in thee.
00:58:44Thou wilt marry this woman.
00:58:47I could be the honorable thing to do.
00:58:51But thou lovest her.
00:58:52Thou marry her.
00:58:54After thou hast seen her nether garment.
00:59:05But 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.
00:59:19I 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.
00:59:49Arthur!
00:59:50Arthur Demersdale!
00:59:51I've been looking for you.
00:59:52Tell.
00:59:53Tell, dear, don't go too far.
00:59:54I'm not...
00:59:55Hester!
00:59:56Hester, you little know what a relief it is to see you alone.
01:00:05Had I but one friend, I would be nowhere to be found.
01:00:16Had I but one friend, or even an enemy, who knew me for what I am, my soul might keep
01:00:26itself alive.
01:00:27But I am that friend, Arthur, and you have such an enemy under the same roof with you.
01:00:36An enemy under the same roof with me?
01:00:39What do you mean?
01:00:40Oh, Arthur, forgive me.
01:00:43Truth was the one virtue to which I held fast, except when your good name was questioned.
01:00:48Then I consented to deception.
01:00:53I must tell you.
01:00:57That old man, Roger Chillingworth, was my husband.
01:01:02I might have known.
01:01:09The secret was told me in the natural recoil of my heart.
01:01:32Why didn't you tell me this before?
01:01:39He pledged me to silence.
01:01:43Hester, I can bear no more.
01:01:47Feel strong, Hester.
01:01:49Advise me what to do.
01:01:52You must dwell no longer with this man.
01:01:54How can I avoid it?
01:01:58Does the universe lie within comfort of yonder town?
01:02:01There's a broad pathway of the sea.
01:02:03It brought you here.
01:02:04It will bear you back again.
01:02:06Begin life anew.
01:02:07There's happiness beyond.
01:02:09No, it cannot be.
01:02:11I have not the courage to venture into a strange land alone.
01:02:19You shall not go alone.
01:02:21Hester.
01:02:22Even now.
01:02:23Even now there's a vessel in the harbor.
01:02:25It sails the day after election.
01:02:26I will secretly engage passage.
01:02:28Hester, this is already the new life.
01:02:32Why didn't we think of it sooner?
01:02:34Let us not look back.
01:02:35The past is gone.
01:02:45Hey, boys.
01:02:46Take all the drinks to the yonder.
01:02:56Hey, there, boys.
01:02:58Bring a small tangent of ale.
01:03:00Yes, sir.
01:03:03You gentlemen join us in a drink?
01:03:08Nay, I am a most unhappy man.
01:03:11What?
01:03:12On election day?
01:03:13Why, this is a time for merrymaking.
01:03:17Not for me.
01:03:19He is soon to be married.
01:03:21Oh, that's a mere trifle.
01:03:25I've got a wife and a report.
01:03:29Aye, but how the ship's master.
01:03:32And well accustomed to stormy weather.
01:03:35Well said, my boy.
01:03:37Well put.
01:03:38We'll have another drink.
01:03:50You've had enough.
01:03:51Mistress Abigail will be angry.
01:03:54That's for Abigail.
01:03:56I will be master in my own house.
01:03:58Sayeth thou?
01:04:00Sayeth I.
01:04:03Mother wants you.
01:04:04If you don't come immediately, she will come and fetch you.
01:04:14That is to the bride.
01:04:43Babu, what are all these supplies on the screen?
01:04:46They're ready now.
01:04:49What are all these supplies on the screen?
01:04:51They're waiting to see the profession pass.
01:04:53There'll be soldiers marching and drums.
01:05:02Good day, mistress.
01:05:03I've been seeking you.
01:05:05What is it, captain?
01:05:08Everything is in readiness.
01:05:10It's happened for you, little girl, and one for the gentlemen.
01:05:16We shall be there.
01:05:17Yes, we're going to sail on the noontide.
01:05:19And it should be a healthy voyage.
01:05:22With the ship sergeant and this other doctor on board with us.
01:05:26Have you another passenger?
01:05:28Yes.
01:05:29I suppose you do.
01:05:31He said he was one of your party.
01:05:33Chillingworth's name.
01:05:35He said he's a friend of the gentleman you spoke of.
01:05:39Yes, he knows him.
01:05:41Well, indeed.
01:05:47Yes.
01:06:00Babu?
01:06:01Yes?
01:06:02Take the children by the hand.
01:06:04Yes, my love.
01:06:17The crowd has gathered to hear your election statement.
01:06:20It could be a calamity.
01:06:23You have asked faith to be destroyed.
01:06:29I'm afraid so.
01:06:31I'm afraid so.
01:06:33I'm afraid so.
01:06:35I'm afraid so.
01:06:37I'm afraid so.
01:06:39I'm afraid so.
01:06:41I'm afraid so.
01:06:43I'm afraid so.
01:06:45I'm afraid so.
01:06:47I'm afraid so.
01:06:49I'm afraid so.
01:06:51I'm afraid so.
01:06:54I'm afraid so.
01:06:57What do you think they will say on the morrow?
01:07:00When they discover that their saintly pastor has fled with the woman of the scarlet letter.
01:07:07My friends will hail.
01:07:10It is well that I am trailing with you.
01:07:17Stop!
01:07:18Stop!
01:07:19People 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!
01:07:43It's not true!
01:07:44He accuses himself falsely.
01:07:45His illness has unbalanced his mind.
01:07:46No, no.
01:07:47At last I see clearly.
01:07:48You have seen Hester's scarlet letter and shuddered at it, but there was one among you
01:07:53whose brand of shame you have not seen.
01:07:56Quiet, madman!
01:07:57Now, at death's door I stand before you.
01:08:02Look again at Hester's scarlet letter.
01:08:05It is the shadow of what I bear in my own heart.
01:08:08Stand any here who question God's judgment of a sinner, then behold a dreadful witness
01:08:15of it.
01:08:26Pearl, Pearl, my child, will you kiss me?
01:08:35Shall we not meet again?
01:08:42Shall we not spend our immortal lives together?
01:08:46Look far into eternity with those bright dying eyes and tell me, what do you see?
01:08:55Peace, Hester.
01:08:58Peace.
01:09:05Peace.
01:09:35Peace.
01:09:36Peace.
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