Darryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame !
Director: Irving Cummings
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
98 min
Rating: 6.029/10
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Top Cast
Don Ameche
Alexander Graham Bell
Loretta Young
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Henry Fonda
Thomas Watson
Charles Coburn
Gardner Hubbard
Gene Lockhart
Thomas Sanders
Spring Byington
Mrs. Hubbard
Movie Info
Director: Irving Cummings
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
Countries: United States of America
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CinemaSerf:
Don Ameche takes the title role in this biopic of the Boston-based Scotsman credited with the invention of the telephone, and he does bring a certain passion to an otherwise rather procedural drama. The story traces the development of his experiments with his friend Thomas Watson (Henry Fonda) and parallels with his budding romance with Mabel (Loretta Young) and for much of the time, it rather uncomfortably straddles the line between science and melodrama. The last twenty minutes - including a visit to Queen Victoria and a court case to establish the legitimacy of his patents, livens the thing up a bit and the supporting cast of Charles Coburn and Gene Lockhart add value, but it needed to focus more of the reason we know of the man, and of the huge significance of his technological advancement. Worth a watch for Ameche's performance, still, though.
tmcd77:
Worth a watch once, but that's it. The reason for watching, the invention of the Telephone, is largely glossed over and background noise. The main thrust of this story is a little too Mills & Boon, Bell falling in love with the deaf daughter of one of his backers. Very much an aged Romantic Drama of the early talkies era.