Fri Oct 23 · 7pm
Mandy (1952)
Mandy (1952), which Alexander Mackendrick made at Ealing between The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers, follows a girl born deaf in early-1950s London, played by Mandy Miller, whose mother, Phyllis Calvert, hears of a residential school that teaches deaf children to speak as the strain threatens to break up the family. Jack Hawkins plays the headmaster. It screens in the season Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945–1960.