The Miracle Worker

“An emotional earthquake!”

A girl of seven in Alabama has never seen the sky or heard her mother's voice, and no one in her family can reach her. Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a twenty-year-old teacher from Boston who has only recently regained her own sight, arrives to try, using touch, the one thing she and Helen Keller (Patty Duke) share. Arthur Penn films a household that has stopped expecting anything, where language is a door nobody has found.