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Dummy(Movie, 1979)

1h 36min | Genres: Drama, TV Movie
DummyRating: 5.0/5 (with 11 vote)
Dummy is a 1979 American made-for-television docudrama film starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino. Based on Ernest Tidyman's nonfiction book of the same name, the film dramatizes the life of Donald Lang (portrayed by Burton), an African–American deaf man who was acquitted of the murders of two prostitutes in Chicago, Illinois. ()
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About Dummy

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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Illinois
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date US: 05/27/1979
Director: Frank Perry

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Other movies with this title: Dummy (1977), Dummy (US, 2002), Dummy (NL, 2006), Dummy (UA, 2007), Dummy (GB, 2008), Dummy (LT, 2020)

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