Mandy (film)

Mandy
Original UK cinema poster
Directed by	Alexander Mackendrick
Produced by	Michael Balcon Leslie Norman
Screenplay by	Nigel Balchin Jack Whittingham
Based on	The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis
Starring	Phyllis Calvert Jack Hawkins Mandy Miller
Music by	William Alwyn
Cinematography	Douglas Slocombe
Edited by	Seth Holt
Production company	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release dates	29 July 1952 (1952-07-29) (UK)
Running time	93 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Mandy is a 1952 British film about a family's struggle to give their deaf daughter a better life. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the novel The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis. It stars Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Terence Morgan, and features the first film appearance by Jane Asher. In the US the film was released as The Story of Mandy,^[1] later also distributed as Crash of Silence.^[2]

Plot

Harry and Christine Garland have a deaf daughter, Mandy. As they realise their daughter's situation, the parents enroll Mandy in special education classes to try to get her to speak. They quarrel in the process and their marriage comes under strain. There are also hints of a possible affair between Christine and Dick Searle, the headmaster of the school for the deaf where Mandy is enrolled. Eventually, the training succeeds to the point where Mandy says her own name for the first time. Mandy's speech was achieved by using a balloon. She was able to feel the vibrations of sound onto the balloon and knew she had made a sound.

Cast

Phyllis Calvert as Christine Garland
Jack Hawkins as Dick Searle
Terence Morgan as Harry Garland
Godfrey Tearle as Mr Garland
Mandy Miller as Mandy Garland
Marjorie Fielding as Mrs Garland
Nancy Price as Jane Ellis
Edward Chapman as Ackland
Patricia Plunkett as Miss Crocker
Eleanor Summerfield as Lily Tabor
Colin Gordon as Wollard (junior)
Dorothy Alison as Miss Stockton
Julian Amyes as Jimmy Tabor
Gabrielle Brune as Secretary
John Cazabon as Davey
Gwen Bacon as Mrs Paul
W. E. Holloway as Woollard (senior)
Phyllis Morris as Miss Tucker
Gabrielle Blunt as Miss Larner
Jean Shepherd as Mrs Jackson
Jane Asher as Nina

Production

The film's screenplay was written by Nigel Balchin and Jack Whittingham. The film was shot at the Ealing Studios in west London, and also at the Royal Schools for the Deaf outside Manchester.^[3]

Reception

Mandy premiered in London on 29 July 1952, and was the fifth most popular at the British box office that year.^[4] The film was nominated for six BAFTA awards at the 1953 British Academy Film Awards ceremony, but didn't win any. Alexander Mackendrick was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1952 Venice Film Festival for his direction, and the film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the same festival.^[5]

References

↑ New York Times, 24 February 1953: 'The Story of Mandy', a British Drama at Sutton, Tells Tale of Deaf-Mute's Training Linked 2007-12-08
↑ IMDb: Mandy (1952) - Also knowns as Linked 2015-04-18
↑ IMDb: Mandy (1952) - Filming Locations Linked 2015-04-18
↑ The Sunday Herald (Sydney), 28 December 1952:Comedian Tops Film Poll Linked 2012-04-24
↑ IMDb: Mandy (1952) - Awards Linked 2015-04-18

External links

Mandy at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
Mandy in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
Mandy at the British Board of Film Classification
Mandy at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Alexander Mackendrick

Films directed	Whisky Galore! (1949) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Maggie (1954) The Ladykillers (1955) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Sammy Going South (1963) A High Wind in Jamaica (1965) Don't Make Waves (1967)

Screenplays	Midnight Menace (1937) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Dance Hall (1950)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize

1951–1968	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Mandy (1952) Executive Suite (1954) The Lovers / La Sfida (1958) The Magician (1959) Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Peace to Him Who Enters (1961) My Life to Live (1962) The Fire Within / Introduction to Life (1963) The Gospel According to St. Matthew / Hamlet (1964) Simon of the Desert / I Am Twenty / Modiga mindre män (1965) Chappaqua / Yesterday Girl (1966) China Is Near / La Chinoise (1967) Our Lady of the Turks / Le Socrate (1968)

1981–2000	Sweet Dreams / They Don't Wear Black-tie (1981) Imperative (1982) Biquefarre (1983) Favorites of the Moon (1984) Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985) Wild Pigeon / A Tale of Love (1986) Hip Hip Hurrah! (1987) Camp de Thiaroye (1988) And Then There Was Light (1989) An Angel at My Table (1990) The Divine Comedy (1991) Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) Bad Boy Bubby (1993) Natural Born Killers (1994) God's Comedy / The Star Maker (1995) Brigands (1996) Ovosodo (1997) Terminus Paradis (1998) The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) Before Night Falls (2000)

2001–present	Dog Days (2001) House of Fools (2002) The Kite (2003) The Sea Inside (2004) Mary (2005) Daratt (2006) I'm Not There / The Secret of the Grain (2007) Teza (2008) Soul Kitchen (2009) Essential Killing (2010) Terraferma (2011) Paradise: Faith (2012) The Police Officer's Wife (2013) Sivas (2014) Frenzy (2015)

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