Belinda

Un joven doctor llega a una comunidad pesquera de Nueva Inglaterra y decide ayudar a una chica sordomuda que conoce. La familia y los vecinos no confían demasiado en él, por lo que se convierte en el principal sospechoso cuando la joven es violada y queda embarazada.... La vida es dura en la granja de Mac Donald en Nueva Escocia y todavía resulta más difícil para Belinda, una joven sordomuda cuya desgracia se confunde con discapacidad mental. El nuevo médico de la ciudad muestra interés en ayudarla a salir de su silenciosa cárcel.... Historia de Belinda, una muchacha muda que vive en una remota comunidad de pescadores de Nueva Escocia.

Dr. Robert Richardson, a dedicated young general practitioner, seeks to establish himself in an isolated fishing village on Cape Breton Island off the Nova Scotia coast. The population is poor and the struggling physician generally gets paid for his efforts in barter. When he meets Belinda McDonald, a young deaf mute callously dismissed by family and neighbors as "the dummy," he alone senses her innate intelligence. He overcomes the initial skepticism of her flinty, gruff father and indifferently cold aunt, who operate a hardscrabble grist mill and farm, and devotes himself to teaching the young girl sign language and lip-reading. Hopes are even raised that she might even eventually qualify for a medical procedure that might improve her condition. Her optimism is crushed, however, when she raped by Locky McCormick, a brutish local fisherman. Traumatized, she is unable to communicate the outrage to her family, who are baffled and angry when they learn she is pregnant. The local gossips blame the doctor, and he and the McDonalds become pariahs, unable to earn a living in the provincial village. Matters come to a head when McCormick and his new wife pressure the local council to declare Belinda an unfit mother and declare them the baby's legal guardians.

1949: 1 Oscar mejor actriz (Jane Wyman). 12 nominaciones.
1949: Globos de Oro: Mejor película: Drama

Director: Jean Negulesco. Intérpretes: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling, Rosalind Ivan, Dan Seymour, Mabel Paige, Ida Moore.Guión: Allen Vincent & Irmgard von Cube (Teatro: Elmer Harris). Música: Max Steiner. Fotografía: Ted McCord (B/N). Título Original: Johnny Belinda. Año: 1948. Duración: 103 min.