| Mandy | |
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| Directed by | Alexander Mackendrick |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
| Edited by | Seth Holt |
| Music by | William Alwyn |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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,[1] and later was sold to television as Crash of Silence.[2]
A high proportion of the film looks at educational methods for the deaf in the 1950s and is very instructional in this context. It also sees the world from the deaf child's eyes.
- ^ New York Times, 24 February 1953: 'The Story of Mandy', a British Drama at Sutton, Tells Tale of Deaf-Mute's Training Linked 2007-12-08
- ^ IMDb: Mandy (1952) - Also knowns as Linked 2015-04-18