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Johnny Belinda
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419817137
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1419817132
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 67677
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1948
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Editorial Review:
Jane Wyman won a Best Actress Oscar for her strong performance in this touching drama of a deaf-mute girl (Wyman) and a doctor (Lew Ayres) who works closely with her. The story (based on Elmer Harris's play) seems intent on dumping one grievance after another onto the poor character, from rape to community pressure to give up the resultant baby, plus a terrible loss sustained somewhere in there as well. But Wyman and director Jean Negulesco manage to make the film more than the sum of its perils, and the texture and atmosphere of the town is particularly effective. --Tom Keogh
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. Jane Wyman won the Best Actress Academy Award for her sensitive portrayal of Belinda capturing the girl's affecting isolation awakening desire to learn and ultimate triumph. Directed by Jean Negulesco and co-starring Lew Ayres Charles Bickford and Agnes Moorehead (all four Oscar nominees* for their fine work) Johnny Belinda (nominated for a total 11 Oscars including Best Picture) blends atmosphere nuance and high drama into a heartbreaking classic.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569676770 Manufacturer No: 67677
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Poor thing!
Johnny Belinda starring Jane Wyman is a gentle and important film. Wyman gave the performance of her career (she won the Oscar for best actress)she is so vulnerable and real as a mute who is raped and no one believes her. Parts of the film are dated and overblown but Johnny Belinda is still a good film, check it out sometime.
Rating:  - Remarkable performance from Wyman
Jane Wyman rightly became a movie superstar with her Academy Award-winning performance in this film. Belinda is a deaf mute young woman who is thought of as "the dummy" by her family and the local townspeople in the Canadian fishing village in which she was born and raised. A young doctor (Lew Ayres) believes Belinda isn't dumb at all and thinks he can help improve her life by teaching her sign language. Belinda proves to be a good student, surprising even her own father (Charles Bickford). As ... Read More
Rating: - A surprising film
In the sense that..well, I had never seen it until TCMs presentation of it, Feb 25, and had assumed, incorrectly as it turns out, that it was an overblown melodrama with little real merit. Johnny Belinda seems to me that it is definitely worthy of the term classic, largely because of Jane Wyman but also because of its outstanding camera work. Wyman demonstrates a great sensitivity with a performance good enough to suggest that she was under utilized all those years. Given the subject matter, and the ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful melondrama
This dvd was purchased pretty much right after the passing of Jane Wyman. She actually still has the disctiction of winning the Oscar for not uttering a single word. Actually deaf actress Marlee Matlin actually did say a word when she won hers for "Children of a Lesser God." Would be an interesting double feature.
The plight of Wyman's character is quite poignantly betrayed. Charles Bickford goes through powerful changes as the father and Agnes Moorehead was never better. Lew Ayres ... Read More
Rating: - Johnny Belinda
The DVD was good, and of course I enjoyed the old movie. Saw it when I was a youn g woman.
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