Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
- blindness and impaired vision
- deaf-mute
- education
- biography
- historical figure
- teacher
- tutor
- teacher student relationship
- tantrum
- railway station
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Anne Bancroft
Annie Sullivan
Patty Duke
Helen Keller
Victor Jory
Captain Arthur Keller
Inga Swenson
Kate Keller
- Andrew Prine — James Keller
- Kathleen Comegys — Aunt Ev
- John Bliss — Admissions Officer (uncredited)
- Grant Code — Doctor (uncredited)
- Michele Farr — Annie at Age 10 (uncredited)
- Jack Hollander — Mr. Anagnos of Perkins School in Boston (uncredited)
- Alan Howard — Jimmie at Age 8 (uncredited)
- Judith Lowry — 1st Crone (uncredited)
- William F. Haddock — 2nd Crone (uncredited)
- Helen Ludlam — 3rd Crone (uncredited)
- Beah Richards — Viney (uncredited)
- Directed
- Arthur Penn
- Written
- William Gibson
Production
- Studio
- Playfilm Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
