Henry B. Walthall played Chillingworth in both this and the silent version (The Scarlet Letter (1926) ).
Final film of Colleen Moore, as she retired from acting after this project. She passed away in 1988.
Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
The earliest documented telecast of this film occurred Monday 10 January 1944 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1).
Prologue: "Foreword--This is more than the history of a woman--it is a portrait of the Puritan period in American life. Though to us, the customs seem grim and the punishments hard, they were a necessity of the times and helped shape the destiny of a nation."