Maudlin and enjoyable film with emotion, deep feeling and and intense drama. It deals with a compassionate doctor : Lew Ayres meets a deaf mute girl called Belinda : Jane Wyman and he cares for the young woman, as he helps her learn and communicate. Things go wrong when she is unfortunately raped.
A very good film about an innocent deaf mute girl and her relationship to a kind doctor, besides, an illegitimate baby who was born for a violation, subsequently tension builds as the baby's father goes back to claim the child. There is also an adequate depiction of the hard life in a coastal Nova Scotia fishing-farming community. Nice and attractive version based on the novel written by Elmer Harris. Main and secondary cast are frankly well. Jane Wyman plays carefully the deaf mute girl whose acting transformed her career, giving a splendid portrayal, and deservedly she won Academy Award and Gloden Globe 1949. Lew Ayres plays allrightly an extremely good physician. Supporting cast is pretty good as the nasty Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling, Agnes Moorehead and special mention for the upright father perfectly played by Charles Bickford. It had a remake 1982 Tv by Anthony Page with Richard Thomas, Rosanna Arquette, Dennis Quaid, Candy Clark.
It contains an atmospheric and evocative cinematography in black and white. Classy and senstive musical score by the great composer Max Steiner. This superior soap opera that became known as The Wyman Weepies was stunningly directed by Jean Negulesco and it won various Oscars and Golden Globes as best actress, drama and film. Negulesco was an elegant and brilliant filmmaker who made notorious films with penchant for Musical, Comedy and Drama, such as : The invincible six, The best everything, Daddy long legs, Three coins in the fountain, How to marry a millionaire, Titanic, Phone call from a stranger, A woman's world, Three came home, Road house, Humoresque, among others. Rating 7.5/10. Better than average.
A very good film about an innocent deaf mute girl and her relationship to a kind doctor, besides, an illegitimate baby who was born for a violation, subsequently tension builds as the baby's father goes back to claim the child. There is also an adequate depiction of the hard life in a coastal Nova Scotia fishing-farming community. Nice and attractive version based on the novel written by Elmer Harris. Main and secondary cast are frankly well. Jane Wyman plays carefully the deaf mute girl whose acting transformed her career, giving a splendid portrayal, and deservedly she won Academy Award and Gloden Globe 1949. Lew Ayres plays allrightly an extremely good physician. Supporting cast is pretty good as the nasty Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling, Agnes Moorehead and special mention for the upright father perfectly played by Charles Bickford. It had a remake 1982 Tv by Anthony Page with Richard Thomas, Rosanna Arquette, Dennis Quaid, Candy Clark.
It contains an atmospheric and evocative cinematography in black and white. Classy and senstive musical score by the great composer Max Steiner. This superior soap opera that became known as The Wyman Weepies was stunningly directed by Jean Negulesco and it won various Oscars and Golden Globes as best actress, drama and film. Negulesco was an elegant and brilliant filmmaker who made notorious films with penchant for Musical, Comedy and Drama, such as : The invincible six, The best everything, Daddy long legs, Three coins in the fountain, How to marry a millionaire, Titanic, Phone call from a stranger, A woman's world, Three came home, Road house, Humoresque, among others. Rating 7.5/10. Better than average.