Dummy
(1979)
Director:
Frank Perry
Writer:
Ernest Tidyman
Cast:
LeVar Burton, Paul Sorvino, Brian Dennehy
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.