The Heart is a Lonely Hunter doesn't make it that simple. Many movies treat blindness and deafness as a kind of magic charm that brings special insights to those afflicted and the people who come in contact with them - think of Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda. John's only deep relationship appears to be with the childlike, unpredictable Spiro, and John's anxiety increases as Spiro becomes more difficult to handle. Copeland's stubborn daughter Portia (Cicely Tyson) to listen to the truth about her father. He buys a record player so that Mick can hear classical music, and forces Dr. John is constantly going out of his way for others. We feel Singer's frustration at the limits of people's patience he's clearly a soulful fellow with a need to express himself. Although we see John Singer using American Sign Language, none of it is translated, forcing us to guess at some of what's being 'said'. John's acquaintances benefit from his friendship, while he seems to become more aware of his spiritual isolation.Īn unusual film for 1968, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is just as unique today.
But John's deaf condition makes communication difficult and his attempts to take Spiros out of the hospital are unsuccessful. He helps out an itinerant drunk, Blount (Stacy Keach) and breaks through the bitterness of a black doctor, Copeland (Percy Rodriguez) by serving as an interpreter for a deaf patient. John carefully befriends Mick as well as other troubled people in town. Young Mick Kelly (Sondra Locke) is a frustrated teen with dreams of a musical future not in the family budget.
Kelly (Biff McGuire), whose wife (Laurinda Barrett) must rent out rooms to make ends meet. John follows to be near his friend, taking up residence in the house of the injured Mr. 1 A lawyer friend helps John bail Spiro from jail for vandalizing a bakery, but Spiro's father sends the man to a mental hospital upstate. It's one of the best-remembered 'small' films of its year.ĭeaf mute John Singer (Alan Arkin) works as a jeweler's engraver and spends his time with Spiros Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), a mentally impaired deaf mute not responsible for his erratic behavior. From the first novel by famed author Carson McCullers, 1968's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is an emotionally intense story of socially marginalized people in the South, capped by an Oscar-nominated performance by Alan Arkin as a deaf mute whose affinity for helping people hides a deep personal pain. The late 1960s saw a number of unusually sensitive adult-themed dramas taken from plays or short stories, such as The Subject Was Roses and I Never Sang for My Father. Starring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach Jr., Chuck McCann, Biff McGuire, Percy Rodrigues, Cicely Tyson, Jackie Marlowe 1968 / Color / 1:78 anamorphic widescreen / 123 min.
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