The Rage of Silence
- Episode aired Jan 29, 1963
- 1h
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
16
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A deaf-mute falls in love with a teacher.A deaf-mute falls in love with a teacher.A deaf-mute falls in love with a teacher.
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Bee Tompkins
- Young Couple Girl
- (as Bea Tompkins)
Mike Farrell
- Young Couple Boy
- (as Michael Farrell)
Matty Jordan
- Chef
- (as Matty Jordon)
- Director
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- ConnectionsReferences The Dick Powell Theatre: Price of Tomatoes (1962)
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Misguided melodrama mixed with pathos
I wanted to like this segment of "The Dick Powell Show" and did admire the performances by Peter Falk and Carol Lynley trying to capture the world of deaf people, but a screenplay emphasizing melodrama and forced pathos sank the hour for me. It was torture to watch its manic-depressive approach to a serious subject.
Falk's pathetic lost soul has a chip on his shoulder and is given to violent outbursts -mad at the world for his misfortune. Lynley is way too beautiful for her role as a deaf teacher he obsesses over -I would have cast a Talia Shire type to go with his Rocky.
The first half is all dread, as we wait for him to constantly blow up and threaten life and limb. Her tender affection helps warm up the final reel but it's too late, as the episode has played like a cheap exploitation movie of the period, but without the sex. In fact, those exploitation movies are far more entertaining as one is not invested in desperate characters played by charismatic performers like Falk and Lynley, and one can stomach their problems far more easily at a safe distance.
Rather than suspense, I watched in dread, waiting for this poor man's Hunchback of Notre Dame to go completely nuts. It's audience manipulation on steroids, perhaps just what producer Aaron Spelling wanted to foist on the audience.
Falk's pathetic lost soul has a chip on his shoulder and is given to violent outbursts -mad at the world for his misfortune. Lynley is way too beautiful for her role as a deaf teacher he obsesses over -I would have cast a Talia Shire type to go with his Rocky.
The first half is all dread, as we wait for him to constantly blow up and threaten life and limb. Her tender affection helps warm up the final reel but it's too late, as the episode has played like a cheap exploitation movie of the period, but without the sex. In fact, those exploitation movies are far more entertaining as one is not invested in desperate characters played by charismatic performers like Falk and Lynley, and one can stomach their problems far more easily at a safe distance.
Rather than suspense, I watched in dread, waiting for this poor man's Hunchback of Notre Dame to go completely nuts. It's audience manipulation on steroids, perhaps just what producer Aaron Spelling wanted to foist on the audience.
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- lor_
- Dec 23, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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