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To me, this movie is perfection.

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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This is the sort of film the British do so perfectly - little films with actors (not superstars) who can fit into their roles as though born to them and stories with pathos and feeling but no sticky sentimentality. "Mandy" was another movie memory from my childhood, one that I always thought would be a memory but fortunately I had the opportunity to view it again recently. I can remember the emotion I felt at the scene when Mandy, by feeling the vibration she makes on a balloon produces the b,b,b, sound just as the teachers despaired that she would ever be able to advance. Mandy Miller was a marvellous little actress whose father had been an electrician at the Ealing Studios and she was discovered when she and her sister toured the studio. She found fame much like Hayley Mills did in the 1960s but was never allowed to feel (by her family) that she was anymore special or gifted than any other child. I suppose "Mandy" proved a film she could never get away from because she retired as a teenager to an early but happy and long lasting marriage. I will always be grateful she made "Mandy".This film has an almost documentary feel to it as it explores the problems and emotions of the Garland family who come to the realization that their baby girl, Mandy, is deaf and dumb. They eventually go to live with Harry's (Terence Morgan) parents who treat Mandy with gentleness and understanding but not like a real child. Christine (the wonderful Phyllis Calvert - is there no part she couldn't play) wants a better future for Mandy and over Harry's head enrols her at a special school run by the radical Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins).The ground breaking methods the school uses seems to produce miracles but Mandy finds it hard to cope. At six she is thought a bit old as a beginner and she has been too sheltered, while her once loving parents are beginning to bicker. An incident at a local park reduces Mandy to "wild animal behaviour" that determines Christine to move nearer the school and enrol her as a day pupil. This film is so full of heart inspiring moments - when Mandy finally finds her voice, in another fit of screams, but the teacher can harness the sounds and Mandy can now begin to learn. There is a subplot going through it that has Christine and Searle thrown together and finding (on Searle's part) that he has deeper feelings for Christine. All blown out of proportion by a nasty superintendent, Mr. Ackland (Edward Chapman who played the creepy lodger to perfection in "The October Man") who wants Searle out of the job and feels a trumped up scandal is the best way to do it. The ending is guaranteed to make a strong person weep as Harry's father realises that the school has made a huge difference to Mandy, and as he says to his wife "you have been interfering all along, now it's my turn"!!Jack Hawkins listed "Mandy" as one of his favourite films and felt it was the turning point in his career, not only helping him define his own philosophy on life but boosting him from success to stardom. When he found himself later in life dealing with his own crippling disability (throat cancer) he drew strength from remembering his role in "Mandy".

Superb film with Phyllis Calvert as the mother who knew that her deaf mute child needed instruction rather than being kept away from other children.Calvert is joined by an excellent cast to show how deaf mute children need that guidance, understanding, love and devotion if they are to succeed.What makes this an extraordinary film is that we're not only working with the child, but trying to put down the vicious gossip of an affair between her teacher and the Calvert character. Here there is not only a misunderstanding, but a vicious plot by a head in the school who doesn't like teacher Jack Hawkins, and with the help of the former's vicious secretary, schemes so that he can rid of Hawkins.One can never forget the fear in the child who was played so well by Mandy Miller. She was absolutely terrific in evoking the emotions of a child in a silent world.

I'm really a movie fan. Watch as much movies as I can. Though I'm never really interested in movies from the 50's. But this movie turned that all around. "Mandy" is a great movie that is a must see! Mandy Miller has a stunning role and plays it really great! The whole story line in this movie is unique, still to this day. It's a movie like I've not seen before. Especially because the movie is from way back, it's great to see that there were already great minds behind this movie. And I can't say it enough, the role that Mandy Miller plays is stunning!If you have the opportunity to watch this movie, watch it! I give it a big 10 out of 10.

The Mandy of the title truly is the star of the film, as almost all of the adults underplay their scenes with her to help her shine brighter. When Mandy's parents find out she is deaf, they have differing ideas on what to do next. Mother, Christine, wants to send Mandy to a special school for deaf children so she can learn to read and write - and perhaps speak - and be as much like other children as possible. But her father, Harry, is somewhat ashamed of his daughter and would rather keep Mandy hidden away at his parents' house with only a governess to teach her the finger alphabet. After seeing how she reacts with other children, Christine realises that for Mandy's sake she must get her to the school, and leaves Harry. Watching Mandy's progress in the school provides some fascinating insight into ways of teaching and, contrary to Harry's thoughts, she does progress, with help from headmaster Searle. A second storyline is developed here as people increasingly believe that Christine is having an affair with Searle, when in fact they are both only interested in the good of the child.A real "four tissue" movie, 10/10.