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The Scarlet Letter (2-Apr-1979)
Director: Rick Hauser Writers: Allan Knee; Alvin Sapinsley From novel: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Keywords: Drama
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Meg Foster |
Actor |
10-May-1948 |
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B-movie starlet |
| John Heard |
Actor |
7-Mar-1945 |
21-Jul-2017 |
The Pelican Brief |
| Jay O. Sanders |
Actor |
16-Apr-1953 |
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Steve Kordo on Crime Story |
| Daniel von Bargen |
Actor |
5-Jun-1950 |
1-Mar-2015 |
Kruger on Seinfeld |
REVIEWS Review by anonymous (posted on 1-Sep-2006) John Heard and Meg Foster make
this an awesome movie to watch. Note that the "movie" itself is divided
into 4 teleplays and requires some fastforwarding. The entire novel (by
Nathaniel Hawthorne) is about a woman who must live with the public
shame of wearing an "A" attached to her chest after being "caught" as
an adulterer: How did they know? She's pregnant and her husband hasn't
been around for that to happen. With a public display of her sin, she
now must live with the guilt and shame of wearing it everywhere she
goes. The letter "A" stands for and is a symbol of an "Adulterer". Sin
committed in the 1600s, during a time when sin was penalized openly,
received much harsher punishments than today. Not only does she have to
look after herself (no husband in sight) but also has to care for and
provide for her little b*st*rd child (as she is referred to), who is
herself enough public display of her shameful past. And whom did she
have the pleasure of sleeping with? None other than the town's
religious clergyman, Minister Dimmsdale, who must also live with the
guilt of having loved and slept with someone who was not his wife. He
has created within him and lives in his very own hell as he is seen
whipping himself daily as punishment for what he has done and as he
walks about holding his fist to his heart. And Hester's own husband has
the nerve to fake his way around town, including the minister's own
house, as the physician who's come to rescue and nurse him back to
health all the while poisoning him. The child, Pearl, tries to explain
who made her by saying that she "had not been made at all, but had been
plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the
prison doorâ. The Scarlet Letter is a fantastic and well-written story
that will be around for ages. MORE QUOTES FROM THE STORY: THE SCARLET
LETTER But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even
purpose. ~Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine" She had not known the
weight until she felt the freedom. ~Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and
another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to
which may be the true. ~Chapter XX "The Minister in a Maze" She had
wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her
intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where
she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. The scarlet
letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.
Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild
ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
~Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine" ~quotegarden~
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