Based on the play of the same title by William Gibson.

SUMMARY: A dramatization about seven-year-old Helen Keller, showing how the blind, deaf, and mute girl was taught by her perseverant nurse, Anne Sullivan, to communicate with the world by the sense of touch. Describes the difficulties which the nurse overcame in her attempt to reorient Helen's family to the task of disciplining and understanding their handicapped child.

CREDITS: Producer, Fred Coe; director, Arthur Penn; screenplay, William Gibson; music, Laurence Rosenthal; director of photography, Ernest Caparros; film editor, Aram Avakian. CAST: Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Kathleen Comegys.