Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHNNY BELINDA (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Mia Farrow stars as the victimized deaf-mute in a TV production of Johnny Belinda. With Barry Sullivan, Ian Bannen and David Carradine...
...parental ties, in fact, are ultimately responsible for the destruction of the Canalis family, a clan as full of brutality and fanaticism as the Karamazovs. Cowed by his father, shunned by his stepmother and stepsister, Anestis blunders his way around the farm until one day he surprises the mute servant girl (Elli Fotiou) in the barn, rapes and kills her-a murder quickly discovered by his parents. Because he is their son, the couple cannot and will not turn the murderer in. In stead, the old man beats the boy remorselessly-and then that night helps row the corpse...
...drinking, vulgar-tongued, card-playing dullards...non-entities, really. They are utterly indifferent to what is going on around them, and couldn't begin to understand it even if they cared. They serve to underline Anouilh's prevailing pessimism about mankind. Kilty has also thrown in a couple of mute secret service men in grey suits and sunglasses, who go about their business with ominous dispatch...
...decision that is likely to be widely followed, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just ruled that the answer is no. Suspected of stealing from his employer, Bethlehem Construction Worker Joseph Dravecz had stood mute when police read his accuser's statement to him. Dravecz was convicted largely on the basis of his silence. By a vote of 6 to 1, though, the high court reversed the conviction and voided the tacit-admission rule in Pennsylvania...
...like you, Mr. Court," he said to Gellinoff, "that justice has deterianated. It is bringing totarianism here. The court made 49 errors in law, and you foreclosed me in getting a fair trial. I will not kowtail to you or anyone else." Having thus blathered on, he next stood "mute" when asked if he had been convicted twice before. He had, of course, but by refusing to say so he forced the state to prove it before a jury...