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What the Deaf Man Heard is a 1997 Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie that aired on CBS television on November 23, 1997. It concerns Sammy, a man who pretends to be deaf and mute, when in reality he can hear and speak perfectly well.
Nov 23, 1997 · What the Deaf Man Heard: Directed by John Kent Harrison. With Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones. Arriving in a new town, a child pretends to be deaf-mute to protect himself - a ruse which works so well that for twenty years he is custodian to all the town's secrets.
What the Deaf Man Heard. After 20 years of pretending not to be able to hear or speak, a man breaks his silence to get revenge on the man who made his life miserable. Stars Matthew Modine, James Earl Jones, Bernadette Peters, and Frankie Muniz.
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute.
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In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute.
After he was seemingly abandoned by his mother at the age of 10, Sammy took a vow of a silence. Since then, everyone in the tiny town of Barrington, Ga., has treated him as a deaf-mute.
- Comedy, Drama
Hallmark Hall of Fame. A man breaks his silence after 20 years to speak out against injustice.
Nov 23, 1997 · In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute.
Nov 23, 1997 · Scripter Robert W. Lenski adapted G.D. Gearino's novel What the Deaf-Mute Heard for this Hallmark Hall of Fame comedy. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, by director John Kent Harrison.
