
Dummy
Original title: Dummy
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8.5/10
(2)
5/27/1979
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1h 36min

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Drama
TV Movie
Synopsis
The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.
Direction: Frank Perry
Screenwriter: Ernest Tidyman
Producer: Sam Manners, Ernest Tidyman
Cast

LeVar Burton
Donald Lang

Paul Sorvino
Lowell Myers

Brian Dennehy
Ragoti

Rose Gregorio
Jean Markin

Gregg Henry
Assistant D.A. Smith

Steven Williams
Julius Lang

Helen Martin
Mrs. Harrod

Paul Butler
Sgt. Alonzo Hobbs