Johnny Belinda
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Cast & Crew
Anthony Page
Richard Thomas
Rosanna Arquette
Dennis Quaid
Candy Clark
Roberts Blossom
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Synopsis
In this remake of the 1948 Jane Wyman-Lew Ayres film (based on the 1940 Broadway play), Richard Thomas is a do-gooder in a poverty stricken rural area with VISTA where he encounters Rosanna Arquette, whom everybody believes to be retarded but he soon discovers to be deaf. A tentative romance blossoms between the two of them, but violence intervenes when she is raped by the local bully (Dennis Quaid). Except for the elimination of the climactic courtroom scene of the Wyman film, this version, directed by Anthony Page (whose list of TV credits otherwise have encompassed real-life figures or events, ranging from "Missiles of October" and "F.D.R. The Last Year" to "The Patricia Neal Story" and "Bill") is a faithful contemporization of the original. Three earlier TV productions of "Johnny Belinda" starred Eddie Albert and Katherine Bard (1955), Julie Harris and Christopher Plummer (1958), and Mia Farrow and Ian Bannen (1967).
Director
Anthony Page
Cast
Richard Thomas
Rosanna Arquette
Dennis Quaid
Candy Clark
Roberts Blossom
Fran Ryan
Robert Dryer
Billy Drago
Richard Lineback
Mickey Jones
Penelope Windust
Wayne Heffley
Marcello Krakoff
Ed Bakey
Noni White
Santos Morales
Carmen Filpi
Julianna Field
Crew
Mitch Ackerman
Gregory Andracke
Stanley Bass
Dick Berg
Thomas Causey
Bodie Chandler
Edward Denault
David Alan Dittmar
D Scott Easton
Pamela Grant
Vic Gurnier
E Blaney Harris
Elmer Harris
Victor Harris
Rich Harrison
Ron Hobbs
Ken S Johnson
Lynn Kizlin
Allan Marcil
Sue Milburn
Barbara Miller
Jill Nemiro
Nicolas Noxon
John Rubinstein
Doris Sabbagh
David Saxon
Michael P Schoenbrun
Judith Silverman
Malcolm Stuart
Mary Swanson
Bryan Thetford
Allen Vincent
Irmgard Von Cube
Thomas Welsh
Arnold Wheyler
Georgina Williams
Michael P Wilson
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Aired in United States October 19, 1982
