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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