Adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Kata 'Be Ready With Bells and Drums'.
Blind Elizabeth Hartman is treated terribly by her vile, sluttish mother Shelley Winters (who strikes her across the face twice), and not much better by alcoholic grandfather Wallace Ford - her fortunes turn when she meets kind, educated Sidney Poitier in the park. Good acting by all - Winters won the Oscar. The girl's dilemmas are a real heartbreaker.
Has a slightly anticlimactic ending, but a good one.
Photographed by Robert Burks, edited by Rita Roland; great score from Jerry Goldsmith had me thinking more than once of To Kill a Mocking Bird (not sure why, really).
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