Dummy · 1979

Dummy

Frank Perry · 96 min · United States of America

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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Production companies

Warner Bros. Television, The Königsberg Company

Locations

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• Filming
• Setting

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Setting

Illinois

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Cast

• 

  LeVar Burton

  Donald Lang

• 

  Paul Sorvino

  Lowell Myers

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  Brian Dennehy

  Ragoti

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  Rose Gregorio

  Jean Markin

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  Gregg Henry

  Assistant D.A. Smith

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  Steven Williams

  Julius Lang

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  Helen Martin

  Mrs. Harrod

• Jonathan Pilurs

  Det. Romain