Mandy (1952)
- Directed by
- Alexander Mackendrick, Fred F. Sears
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 34 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film follows a family trying to help their deaf daughter learn to communicate in 1950s Britain. It shows their conflicts with different educational methods and the girl's struggle to find her voice.
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What happens
Mandy is a 1952 British drama film about a family's struggle to give their deaf daughter a better life. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the novel The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis. It stars Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Terence Morgan, and features the first film appearance by Jane Asher. In the US the film was released as The Story of Mandy, and later was sold to television as Crash of Silence. A high proportion of the film looks at educational methods for deaf people in the 1950s and focuses on oralism, a now controversial approach which relies on teaching the child to speak and lipread and discourages sign language. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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