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| United Artists | Release Date: July 28, 1962 |
Starring:
Andrew Prine, Anne Bancroft, Dale Ellen Bethea, Grant Code, Inga Swenson, John Bliss, Kathleen Comegys, Maribel Ayuso, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Summary:
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
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Anne Bancroft won the Oscar playing Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, in this intelligent adaptation of William Gibson's Broadway hit, and it's a fierce, moving job, highlighted by the incredibly savage battles between teacher Annie and pupil Helen (fellow Oscar winner Patty Duke). It's a model serious bio-drama.
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Truffaut's The Wild Child is a more beautifully conceived picture on the same theme, but even with its imperfections and staginess this early Penn film is extraordinary.
The absolutely tremendous and unforgettable display of physically powerful acting that Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke put on in William Gibson's stage play The Miracle Worker is repeated by them in the film made from it by the same producer, Fred Coe, and the same director, Arthur Penn.
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