The Miracle Worker (9/10) Movie CLIP - She Knows! (1962) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Annie Sullivan's (Anne Bancroft) teaching finally comes to fruition when she tries to get Helen (Patty Duke) to refill a pitcher.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on William Gibson's Broadway play and retaining its acclaimed cast, Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker tells the true story of Helen Keller (Patty Duke), an Alabama girl struck blind and deaf as a baby after an elevated fever. Enter Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a partially-blind woman assigned the task of teaching Helen sign language. After first separating Helen from her over-protective parents (Victor Jory and Inga Swenson), Annie begins the arduous process of teaching the girl.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1962)
Cast: Victor Jory, Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson
Director: Arthur Penn
Producer: Fred Coe
Screenwriters: Helen Keller, William Gibson

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[theanxiousanddepressed]

I think because of how aggressive she is touching things to learn what they are is what makes this so touching. Helen finally is seeing the world for the first time and doesn't want to wait, she's so excited.

[classics]

The moment where, now that she understands everything around her has its own name, Helen points at Annie as if to ask “what is your name?” with tears in her eyes … recognizing for the first time that this person has been trying to help her all along and feeling a newfound love and gratitude of immeasurable depth towards her … that’s a cinematic moment, right there.

[frenchieseverine]

This scene is wonderful, actually the most touching of the whole movie.Helen makes the connection between the fresh liquid pouring into her hands and the word "water"and she knew at that second that everything had a name and was invaded by joy and hope..i got tears into my eyes each time i see it .The true Helen keller asked for at least 20 things this same day and learnt to "say""mother, "father"sister...just beautiful!

[Andrew_Warden]

You can see in these scenes why Patty Duke's performance got her an Oscar at such a young age. The physicality, the way she seems to look and point "through" Anne Bancroft, the way she hardly even seems to blink in the scenes I've seen, and that tear coming down at the end of this scene, and again, without blinking is just incredible. I have to check out the whole movie.

[waspqueen]

That raw scream of victory — “She KNOWS!” Anne Sullivan’s actress was on point.

[The_No_Victim_Zone]

The entire movie is a MasterClass in acting. This kind of performance hasn’t existed for years. Brilliant

[phemyda]

Annie was the first to see Helen not as a wild animal or a troublemaker or a "mental defective" but as an intelligent human being ravenous for knowledge, exploration, freedom, and connection. And she gave her all of those things in the form of language. A miracle, indeed.

[dianalee]

Most incredible movie! Patty Duke was just 16 when she won for this, becoming the youngest Oscar winner at the time. And Anne Bancroft was brilliant, a well deserved Oscar

[DanielSelk]

When I first saw this movie, I was so frustrated that she was going back to her old way... then THIS part happened...and I started crying with joy and aw. Such a powerful scene =)

[ThatDangerousWolf]

One of my favorite movies of all time. The simple concept of things having a name being understood unlocked an entire person stuck in her own mind. Such a beautiful story.

[koppsr]

Makes you think how many children suffered the same fate as Helen, without someone to help them. Heartbreaking.

[jimmyl]

When she says teacher… that’s so touching

[flowerfaerie]

I’m not someone who enjoys sappy scenes in movies. Usually I find them super cringy. But THIS. THIS made me bawl. Helen’s utter ecstasy, Anne’s realization and relief, her parents hugging her in rapture, the emotion in the words “MOTHER, PAPA, SHE KNOWS!” And then the whole thing quieting down to the somber ending part in which Helen learns the word for “teacher.” It still makes me either cry or laugh every time I see it.

[BM]

Indescribable...but the look on Patty Duke's face once she understands Anne as "T-E-A-C-H-E-R"...I sob every time.

[AliciaNyblade]

As someone who grew up in the "special education" system in school (I've been visually impaired since birth) the part where Helen gestures to Anne to ask, "Who are you/what are you called?" and Anne answers, "Teacher, " moves me to tears every time. It really does take uniquely empathetic people to specialize in teaching students with disabilities and to do it well, because the teachers who are genuinely good at it are the ones who see the disabilities as simply a part of their students rather than things that need to be "fixed" or "overcome". The only time Helen's blindness and deafness were holding her back were when her parents shaped their treatment of her around what they thought a blind/deaf person was capable of--or rather, wasn't capable of. Once Anne arrived and believed in Helen enough to hold her accountable and consider her worth educating as one would any other child, there was no stopping Helen from becoming the badass she later went on to be while still being blind and deaf. Anne and Helen are amazing women who should be remembered and celebrated as their individual selves and the famous teacher/student team they became. They are queens in various disability communities, but especially the blind, d/Deaf, and d/Deaf-blind. Rest in peace to them both. Blessed be.

[matrixleader]

This is how a therapist feels when he or she is able to help her patient or student. Sense of awe and joy. As a physical therapist myself when I see my patients able to walk and people expected them to be bedridden. I bawled. If you love your job by helping people it's such a wonderful feeling at the end of the day.

[sgrafx]

Oh yes. This is the best scene of the movie.

[wallyssalas]

Some of the most dramatic and meaningful scenes of this incredible film. The acting is superb in all its complexity. The musical background adds to the drama in all its humanity. I saw this film in New York City in 1962 and stayed with me forever. It remains one of my favorite movies of all times. Its impact on me remains unchanged. I must have seen this film a dozen times. Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, and the rest of the performers in these few scenes, are dramatically perfect and uniquely well directed.

[klassicalmuzik]

In just a few short days, it will be eight years since my miracle worker departed from this earth. We met in middle school and we were both in 8th grade. I was a lonely autistic boy in a new school that people didn’t take a second look at. She saw me sitting alone at a lunch table and asked me to come sit with her and her friends, from there on she set a chain of reaction in motion that still goes on to this day. She brought me out of my shell, took me under her wing, helped me get around school, always told me how amazing I was, always made me feel better with her brilliant sense of humor, taught me that my autism doesn’t have to consume my identity, and she left a hand print on my heart. When I graduated high school, her family awarded me her scholarship and I successfully went to college and graduated having made the National Honors Society and Deans List.
Allie Castner, forever my miracle worker, best friend, and guardian angel. Someone who cared enough to make an impression and change that lasted a lifetime.

[SunBunz]

I always get teary eyes when Annie screams "SHE KNOWS!!!!"
Yup. Just now, my eyes are sweating. lol Dammit.
3:20 When Helen finally realized what Annie was trying to do all this time, there's a look on her face: "I'm so sorry..." (for being such a little shit to you LOL)