Scarlet Letter with Lillian Gish is a fine silent film, but hardly deserves the praise it is receiving from those who have commented on it here. The performance of Lillian Gish is a good one but nowhere near as memorable as The Wind,Broken Blossoms, Way Down East or Orphans of the Storm-not to mention some others. I also preferred the very different movie He Who Gets Slapped with Lon Chaney to this one also directed by Victor Seastrom as well as his masterpiece The Wind. It is probably the best version of this story but probably no other version was even passable-a hard novel to film well, perhaps. I give it 6 of a possible 10 and do think it is worth seeing and maybe even adding to your video collection but it is far from classic or great.
Review of The Scarlet Letter
