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...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft as Teacher Sullivan and Patty Duke as the child Helen Keller re-create their Broadway roles in what is possibly the most moving double performance ever recorded on film...
...Miracle Worker. On film as on Broadway, the story of the child Helen Keller's release from the condition of a blind deaf-mute becomes an almost unbearably moving performance...
...Miracle Worker. On film as on Broadway, the story of the child Helen Keller's release from the condition of a blind deaf-mute becomes an almost unbearably moving performance...
...Artists) was. on Broadway, essentially a set piece for two actresses whose dialogue was a matter of touch, since one was playing a deaf, blind, mute child. It was less play than performance, done night after night with emotional brilliance by Patty Duke as the seven-year-old Helen Keller, and Anne Bancroft as her teacher, Annie Sullivan...
...picture has the same defects the play had. The pure drama at the center is enough to hold fast any audience capable of seeing and hearing, but Writer Gibson nervously includes some fabricated tensions and artificial dramaturgy. There is much shouting, sneering and threatening by Helen Keller's father (Victor Jory) and stepbrother (Andrew Prine). and much bungling by her mother (Inga Swenson). Teacher Sullivan is given a two-week deadline to produce results. The main story is too strong to require that sort of buttressing...