- HD 1080
- Runtime: 86m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Frank Perugini
- Stars: Harry Henderson, Norman Johnstone, Ann Kennedy, Lucia Lynn Moses, William E. Pettus
- keywords: marriage contract, prison escape, class differences, silent film, framed for a crime, sleazy pimp, sexual exploitation, abusive stepfather, mother son relationship, african american, caste, piano player, melodrama
- Production_studio: Colored Players Film Corporation
- providers: TCM
- The The Scar of Shame is featured in the top rankings of 1929
- #35 in Top Drama Movies of 1929
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.