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<\/p>\nBased on the shocking book that, perhaps more than any other novel, effectively encapsulated the emergence of individualism and self-reliance from America’s Puritan and conformist roots\u2014and remains controversial today in some circles\u2014the first sound version of The Scarlet Letter (1934) comes to Blu-ray and DVD, Nov. 21 from Film Masters. <\/p>\n
Colleen Moore (Social Register, Why Be Good, Lilac Time, Twinkletoes) stars as Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of sin and redemption. Bearing a child out of wedlock was punishable in 17th century Massachusetts by being forced to wear a scarlet letter A. Hester, a widowed mother with an illegitimate child, Pearl, is forced to wear said scarlet letter. In a story about retaining dignity and protecting Pearl from close-minded townsfolk, Hester is determined to rise above her situation.<\/p>\n
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SPECIAL FEATURES:<\/strong> Professor and author Jason A. Ney joins us for an in-depth look at this historic film, joined by special guest, Cora Sue Collins; written essay by Ney; Ballyhoo Motion Pictures presents “A Sin of Passion: Hawthorne in Film,” featuring a new interview with author, Justin Humphreys; original production, “Salem and the Scarlet Letter,” with archival footage provided by producer Sam Sherman of Salem, Mass., narrated by John Carradine; and a new interview with Sherman, “Revealing the Scarlet Letter.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Based on the shocking book that, perhaps more than any other novel, effectively encapsulated the emergence of individualism and self-reliance from America’s Puritan and conformist roots\u2014and remains controversial today in some circles\u2014the first sound version of The Scarlet Letter (1934) comes to Blu-ray and DVD, Nov. 21 from Film Masters. Colleen Moore (Social Register, Why\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,111,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blu-ray-news","category-dvd-news","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37797,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions\/37797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}