
Montgomery Royle is a famed pianist whose student, the much younger Grace Blair, believes herself to be in love with him. When an explosion destroys Royle's hearing, he is bitter at the loss of his art and profession. His sister Florence persuades him to learn lip-reading as a way to break out of the isolation of deafness. Royle discovers a new meaning to his life when he uses his new lip-reading knowledge to help others. But the new skill has serious ramifications for his re... (Full plot summary below)
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Montgomery Royle is a famed pianist whose student, the much younger Grace Blair, believes herself to be in love with him. When an explosion destroys Royle's hearing, he is bitter at the loss of his art and profession. His sister Florence persuades him to learn lip-reading as a way to break out of the isolation of deafness. Royle discovers a new meaning to his life when he uses his new lip-reading knowledge to help others. But the new skill has serious ramifications for his relationship with Grace.
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| User ReviewBob VI'm disposed to like this film if only because Bette Davis was about to give up on a movie career when George Arliss offered her this part, which in turn got her signed to Warner Brothers, and the rest of course is history. Besides that, I find this film a bit dry, and at certain points just plain dull, but all of the actors do an excellent job, which makes it very watchable at times nonetheless. |