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The Miracle Worker
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
1962 · Directed by Arthur Penn · 106 min · Drama · History · 10 frames
Tagline
An emotional earthquake!
Crew
- Screenplay: William Gibson
- Cinematography: Ernesto Caparrós
- Edited by: Aram Avakian
- Music: Laurence Rosenthal
- Produced by: Fred Coe
Cast
- Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan
- Patty Duke as Helen Keller
- Victor Jory as Captain Arthur Keller
- Inga Swenson as Kate Keller
- Andrew Prine as James Keller
- Kathleen Comegys as Aunt Ev
- John Bliss as Admissions Officer (uncredited)
- Grant Code as Doctor (uncredited)
- Michele Farr as Annie at Age 10 (uncredited)
- Jack Hollander as Mr. Anagnos of Perkins School in Boston (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Playfilm Productions
- Budget: $500,000
- Box office: $2,500,000
- Themes: blindness and impaired vision, deaf-mute, education, biography, historical figure, teacher, tutor, teacher student relationship, tantrum, railway station
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