The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

Directors

Robert Ellis Miller

Cast

Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann, Biff McGuire, Laurinda Barrett

The story

John Singer is a deaf-mute who works as a silver engraver in a southern US town. His only friend is a mentally disabled mute, Spiros Antonapoulos, who continually gets into trouble with the law, since he does not know any better. When Spiros is committed to a mental institution by his cousin, who is his guardian, John offers to become Spiros' guardian, but he is told that Spiros will have to go to the institution until this has been arranged.

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