Product Details

• Actors: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Best Film & Video Co
• VHS Release Date: January 6, 1995
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303379141
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,515 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ha!, May 31, 2001

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Kevin Farley (Hanford, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Scarlet Letter (World Classics Collection) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is terrible! We watched it as a suppliment to the 2 tape video by PBS. We watched this movie again just for comic relief. The acting was absolutley horrid! The narrators named "Roger Chillingworth" as "Roger Chillingsworth" not only was this spoken, it appeared on the screen numerous times. The scene where Hester is to "Let down her long brown hair" the actress let down her almost shoulder length hair... the scene on the scaffold with the old man in the nylon jumpsuit looks like he was hired off a Mannhatten street corner... Don't get me started on the night scaffold scene where the huge "meteor" appears... great 10 cent special effects.... Hester's "velcro" "A" put a nice touch for a 1600s setting... With modern car noise, and disgusting acting, i bet Nathaniel Hawthorne is rollling in his grave!!

Don't buy, unless you want to introduce students with a classic (which many think is boring) novel, in a un-planned comedic way.

I chuckle when I think how bad this movie really is!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Parody? No., May 13, 2001

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EMMackin (Hoboken, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Scarlet Letter (World Classics Collection) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Initially, this video seems like a skit from Saturday Night Live. The "professors" are paradies of themselves, and I've seen better acting from 2nd grade students. The video is boring and dated. And if I was bored with it, I can only imagine how much my eighth-graders would have been turned off. I would have given it "no-stars" but that wasn't an option. Other than that, it was fine.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Monty Python meets The Scarlet Letter!, September 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Scarlet Letter (World Classics Collection) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this movie with my 11th grade American Literature students. Many of them are really struggling with the novel. All I can say is we got a really good laugh out of this video. The acting is atrocious, and the special effects and costumes are ridiculous!!! (I don't think that Puritans wore earrings.) All drama students know that actors are supposed to face the camera or audience and speak loudly! It isn't worth buying, but I can say that it gave some stressed out students a little bit of comic relief from a difficult novel. We laughed until we cried, especially when the "A" appeared in the sky. So Monty Python!