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.
Colleen Moore
as Hester Prynne
Hardie Albright
as Arthur Dimmesdale
Henry B. Walthall
as Roger Chillingworth
Cora Sue Collins
as Pearl
Alan Hale
as Bartholomew Hockings
Virginia Howell
as Abigail Crakstone
William Kent
as Sampson Goodfellow
William Farnum
as Gov. Bellingham
Betty Blythe
as Innkeeper
Al O. Henderson
as Master Wilson
Jules Cowles
as Beadle
Mickey Rentschler
as Digerie Crakstone