Johnny Belinda (1948)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Jane Wyman	...	Belinda McDonald
	Lew Ayres	...	Dr. Robert Richardson
	Charles Bickford	...	Black MacDonald
	Agnes Moorehead	...	Aggie MacDonald
	Stephen McNally	...	Locky McCormick
	Jan Sterling	...	Stella McCormick
	Rosalind Ivan	...	Mrs. Poggety
	Dan Seymour	...	Pacquet - Storekeeper
	Mabel Paige	...	Mrs. Lutz
	Ida Moore	...	Mrs. McKee
	Alan Napier	...	Defense Attorney

Storyline

Dr. Robert Richardson, a dedicated young general practitioner, seeks to establish himself in an isolated fishing village on Cape Breton Island off the Nova Scotia coast. The population is poor and the struggling physician generally gets paid for his efforts in barter. When he meets Belinda McDonald, a young deaf mute callously dismissed by family and neighbors as "the dummy," he alone senses her innate intelligence. He overcomes the initial skepticism of her flinty, gruff father and indifferently cold aunt, who operate a hardscrabble grist mill and farm, and devotes himself to teaching the young girl sign language and lip-reading. Hopes are even raised that she might even eventually qualify for a medical procedure that might improve her condition. Her optimism is crushed, however, when she raped by Locky McCormick, a brutish local fisherman. Traumatized, she is unable to communicate the outrage to her family... Written by (duke1029@aol.com)  

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