Screenplay: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Lillian Gish · Lars Hanson · Henry B. Walthall · Karl Dane

Plot In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their...

Direction Joe May

Cast George Sanders · Margaret Lindsay · Vincent Price · Dick Foran

Plot In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet...

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Vincent Price · Sebastian Cabot · Brett Halsey · Beverly Garland

Plot Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment: Two septuagenarian friends, Dr Carl Heidegger and Alex Medbourne, come together to commiserate the anniversary of Heidegger’s fiancée Sylvia’s death, after she collapsed on the eve of...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Senta Berger · Hans Christian Blech · Lou Castel · Yelena Samarina

Plot In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the...

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Demi Moore · Gary Oldman · Robert Duvall · Edward Hardwicke

Plot In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house,...

Direction Norman Felton · John Newland · Perry Lafferty · Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Luther Adler · Brian Aherne · Eddie Albert · Robert Alda

Plot Robert Montgomery Presents is a dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year...

Direction Peter George

Cast Tom Shell · Matt Adler · Mary Grace Canfield · Miles Chapin

Direction William Corrigan · Laurence Schwab Jr. · Kingman T. Moore · Grey Lockwood

Cast Frank Gallop · Jack La Rue · Mercer McLeod · Leslie Nielsen

Plot Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions...

Direction Augusto Martínez Torres

Cast Concha Grégori · Héctor Vallés

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Gregory J. Markopoulos · Mary Zelles

Plot Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a...

Direction Brian Nissen · Richard Rich

Plot In the time of the Pilgrims, a scarecrow, who comes to life as long as he wears a feather in his cap, endeavors--with the help of an enchanted broomstick and...

Direction Mario Bonnard

Cast Elena Sangro · Elsa D'Auro · Carlo Gualandri · Giorgio Fini

Plot Adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story starring the diva Elena Sangro.