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Johnny Belinda

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Johnny Belinda (1948)

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Reviews Counted:7

Fresh:6

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This tearjerker, with its subtle and sensitive performances, captivated both critics and audiences and earned an Oscar for Jane Wyman. An idealistic doctor comes to a small fishing village in... This tearjerker, with its subtle and sensitive performances, captivated both critics and audiences and earned an Oscar for Jane Wyman. An idealistic doctor comes to a small fishing village in Nova Scotia and transforms the world of a deaf-mute girl by teaching her sign language. Then, just when her life has improved, she's raped by the local womanizer, and ends up pregnant. When the rapist threatens to take the boy, the young mother is driven to murder her attacker, and a gripping trial ensues. A dramatic witness comes forward to save her, and eventually she has a happy life with her child and the doctor. [More]

Starring: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Jan Sterling

Starring: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Jan Sterling, Rosalind Ivan, Dan Seymour, Mabel Paige, Ida Moore, Alan Napier, Monte Blue, James Craven, Ian Wolfe

Director: Jean Negulesco

Director: Jean Negulesco
Story: Elmer Harris
Composer: Max Steiner

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Jean Negulseco's melodrama is a moody, well-crafted if outdated saga with a star-making performance from Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute girl, who's raped and bears an illegitimate child.

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02/08/08
Emanuel Levy
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Try all you want to make yourself jaded over this, but in the end poor little Belinda wins us all over in the end.

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02/23/06
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Michael Szymanski
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Powerful Jane Wyman performance and Oscar caliber production overall.

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Steve Crum
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A touching, moving film that takes its time and doesn't rely on strident melodramatics to tell its story.

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