Goody Rickby conspires with Satan to avenge herself when Gillead Wingate refuses to acknowledge their illegitimate child. Years pass, and Wingate becomes a powerful figure in his Salem, Massachusetts, community.
In the pantheon of early American cinema, few artifacts shimmer with the peculiar, midnight luminescence of Puritan Passions (1923). Directed by Frank Tuttle and adapted from Percy MacKaye's play The Scarecrow—itself a derivative of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s cynical fable "Feathertop"—this film represents a sophisticated...
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" In the pantheon of early American cinema, few artifacts shimmer with the peculiar, midnight luminescence of Puritan Passions (1923). Directed by Frank Tuttle and adapted from Percy MacKaye's play The Scarecrow—itself a derivative of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s cynical fable "Feathertop"—this film represents a sophisticated intersection of literary high-mindedness and the burgeoning visual vocabulary of the silent era. It is a work that refuses the simplistic morality of its contemporary melodramas, ..."
James Ashmore Creelman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Percy MacKaye, Frank Tuttle
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