The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
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Stars:
- David Miller
Writing:
- Charles Kaufman
- Nicholas Monsarrat
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Release Date: 1957-11-06
6.9/10
- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 103