The Sound and the Silence Movie Review 1993

Bio of inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Bach). The Scottish Bell's father was a speech specialist and his beloved mother Eliza (Fricker) was severely hearing impaired. Bell himself trained to work with the deaf in Boston and experimented with transmitting speech electronically--a project which only grew when Bell married the deaf Mable Hubbard (Quinn). Bell's lifelong devotion lead to his development of the telephone as well as numerous other inventions (and his founding of "National Geographic" magazine). Bell was hardly a lively character but this TV drama is lavishly done. In two parts.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 93 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Biopics: Science/Medical, Inventors & Inventions, Deafness, Period Piece: 19th Century

Screenplay

Tony Foster, William Schmidt, John Kent Harrison

Cast

John Bach, Elizabeth Quinn, Brenda Fricker, Ian Bannen

Director

John Kent Harrison

Music

John Charles