Mabel Paige

Johnny Belinda -- Life is hard on MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency. Then the town's new doctor takes an interest in helping her break out of her silent prison.

Nocturne -- A 9 min Surrealist inspired short film focusing on insomnia and its relation to a disturbed psyche.

A prim young woman, Millie (Evelyn Keyes), learns that she must be married before she can adopt an orphan. Under the knowing guidance of Glenn Ford, she is transformed into a vivacious beauty who soon finds herself with many suitors.

Jane Wyman ("Magnificent Obsession," "The Yearling," TV's "Falcon Crest") won an Academy Award for her moving portrayal of a deaf mute who lives in a remote Nova Scotia fishing village. After learning sign language from a compassionate doctor, she is raped by a local bully and gives birth to an illegitimate son, Johhny Belinda. When the rapist returns to claim his son, she fights to keep him. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Story and Cinematography. Agnes Moorehead (TV's "Bewitched," "Citizen Kane") plays Wyman's unsympathetic sister and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Charles Bickford ("The Song of Bernadette," TV's "The Virginian") received on Oscar nomination as Wyman's stoic fisherman father. Lew Ayres' ("All Quiet on the Western Front") sensitive portrayal of the compassionate doctor caught in the crossfire earned an Oscar nomination. A monumental cinematic achievement.

Young Martin Lynn (Farley Granger) ekes out a meager wage as a delivery boy while caring for his tubercular mother, a devout Catholic. Upon her death, Father Kirkman (Harold Vermilyea) refuses to help arrange a proper funeral, driving the grief-stricken youth to frenzied measures. In this bleak film noir, doors close on embittered Martin wherever he turns, although sympathetic Father Roth (Dana Andrews) extends a redemptive hand.

This hard-boiled jailbreak drama follows depraved inmate Jim Sherbondy (Scott Brady) as he masterminds an escape from a Colorado penitentiary with 11 others in tow and the formidable warden (Roy Best) on his heels. Based on the actual 1947 breakout, the chase moves from terrorized town into steep valley terrain, but Carl (Jeff Corey), Smalley (DeForest Kelley) and the rest can't outrun the merciless storm that envelops them.

A medical school drop out and crook plans a holdup that goes wrong. He ends up being chased by a gangster and takes on a new identity thinking it is the solution, but of course it is not what he expects.

Life is hard on MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency. Then the town's new doctor takes an interest in helping her break out of her silent prison.

A prim young woman, Millie (Evelyn Keyes), learns that she must be married before she can adopt an orphan. Under the knowing guidance of Glenn Ford, she is transformed into a vivacious beauty who soon finds herself with many suitors.

Life is hard on MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency. Then the town's new doctor takes an interest in helping her break out of her silent prison.

Belinda is a deaf mute who is learning sign language and lip reading from Dr. Richardson. One night she is raped by Locky, and when Locky and his wife come for the baby, Belinda shoots Locky and is put on trial for murder.

A prim young woman, Millie (Evelyn Keyes), learns that she must be married before she can adopt an orphan. Under the knowing guidance of Glenn Ford, she is transformed into a vivacious beauty who soon finds herself with many suitors.