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Deaf Minor 
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DISABILITY |
Deaf
Speaking Impaired |
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This is
about a deaf woman who becomes a preacher. |
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Jenny has
been deaf since she was 8 years old when her |
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father beat
her. She just an ordinary country girl who |
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boyfriend
(Burt Reynolds) says: "What do you want to learn to |
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talk for.
Things are just fine the way they are." Then a |
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travelling
evangelist comes to town. When the preacher |
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prays for
her she does speak, and then promptly faints. She |
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goes to work
for the preacher and uses her sexual appeal in |
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the story of
Samson and Deliah. |
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When a blind
man who has travelled a 100 miles is brought |
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before her
she says she can't heal him. But suddenly he can |
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see and she
thinks she has 'cured' him but he's really a fake |
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paid for by
the show. The next day hordes of cripples turn up |
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and Jenny
believes she has the power to heal. But |
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meanwhile
the preacher has fallen in love with Jenny, his wife |
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is jealous
and she denounces Jenny as a fake. |
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This is old
fashioned melodrama. Presumably Jenny's |
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deafness was
psychological rather than physical. We are not |
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Harry Swoger
plays the 'Big Cripple' |
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Note film of
same name 1995. |
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Notes
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