Miracle Worker, The

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From William Gibson’s play (originally produced on TV), this powerful film tells the story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller (Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, in Oscar-winning performances), the deaf-blind girl whom Sullivan rescues. It’s said that while performing this play on Broadway for more than a year and then during the filming, both were black-and-blue from all the physical beatings they inflicted on each other. If you don’t cry when Helen and Annie are at the cistern, have your heart and glands examined for atrophy.