The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and people with disabilities.
시청각 장애인 헬렌 켈러와 도전 정신을 심어준 설리반 선생의 이야기다. 이 영화는 아서 펜이 패티 듀크와 앤 밴크로프트와 함께 만든 '헬렌 켈러' 이야기의 최종판. 이미 브로드웨이와 텔레비전 시리즈로 대성공을 거둔 작품이다. 언제 들어도 깊은 울림을 주는 휴먼 스토리에 권위와 편견에 도전하는 헬렌과 설리반의 강한 성격이 가미돼 자칫 늘어질 수 있는 스토리를 놓치지 않는다.
Narrated by actress Katharine Cornell and filmed in black and white, it spends the first 24 minutes introducing viewers, through newsreels, interviews, and old photographs, to the story of the deaf and blind disabled-rights pioneer. News footage shows her international appearances and visits with heads of state, including President Eisenhower allowing her to feel his face. The second half takes a day-in-the-(exceptional)-life approach to Keller's existence circa 1955. Made just 13 years before her death, Keller's famed tutor-translator-friend Anne Sullivan had already died, leaving her live-in replacement, Polly Thomson, to share the film's focus. From the time Keller takes her morning walk along the 1,000-foot handrail around her yard through her workday to her nightly reading of her Braille Bible, her serene acceptance of her life will amaze and inspire.
