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Crash of Silence

Crash of Silence

Original title
Mandy
Year
1952
Gender
Drama
Director
Alexander Mackendrick
Country
United Kingdom
Details
93 minutes / black & white / sound

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine (Phylis Calvert), Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf. A heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewi's novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick, Mandy is an Ealing Studios classic.

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