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* CharacterNarrator: Kit narrates the first few scenes.
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* CharacterNarrator: Kit narrates the first few scenes.
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* ReadingLips: This is a major part of Mandy's education. [[spoiler:By the end, she's gotten good enough to have a conversation with a normal boy.]]
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* ReadingLips: This is a major part of Mandy's education. [[spoiler:By the end, she's gotten good enough to have a conversation with a normal boy.boy with hearing.]]
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* WhileYouWereInDiapers: Ackland tells Searle, "I was working for this school when you were still a boy!"
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* LickedByTheDog: Searle's bluntness often causes adults to dislike him, but he's good with deaf kids. When he meets Mandy and her parents at a restaurant, Mandy runs into his arms.
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* ReadingLips: This is a major part of Mandy's education. [[spoiler:By the end, she's gotten good enough to have a conversation with a normal boy.]]
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* AMinorKidroduction: The movie opens with Mandy as a two-year-old, when her parents realize she's deaf.
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* MeaningfulName: As Kit says in the first scene, "Amanda is Latin for 'one who deserves to be loved.' I don't know about deserving love. She certainly gets it."
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* FirstFriend: An unnamed deaf girl is the first child to show kindness to Mandy, giving her a necklace made out of clay and later waving to her in the dorm at night.
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* BabysFirstWords: Mandy finally learns to say "mummy."
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* BoardingSchool: The Bishop David school is normally this, but Mandy adjusts so badly to campus life that Searle takes advantage of a loophole to let her live in a nearby apartment with Kit.
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* ForgotTheDisability: Ellis sometimes has to remind people to look at her when they talk to her.
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* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: The morning after Mandy arrives at school, she misses Kit so badly that instead of eating, she just stares into her cereal, then angrily shoves it away.
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[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1952_uk_film_poster_for_mandy.jpg]]
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''Mandy'', later sold to television as ''Crash of Silence'', is a 1952 British drama film, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by Nigel Balchin and Jack Whittingham, and produced by Michael Balcon and Leslie Norman, and based on the novel ''The Day is Ours'' by Hilda Lewis.
Mandy Garland (Mandy Miller) is born without auditory nerves. Her parents, Harry (Terence Morgan) and Christine, aka Kit (Phillis Calvert), and her grandparents (Godfrey Tearle and Marjorie Fielding) keep her sheltered from the world, and by age six she's desperately lonely and doesn't know any language, despite efforts to teach her fingerspelling. Kit enrolls her in the Bishop David School for the Deaf, which focuses on teaching kids to speak. Headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), new teacher Miss Crocker (Patricia Plunkett), and deaf founder Jane Ellis (Nancy Price) work to teach Mandy, but Harry disapproves of Kit's decision to place her in the school and fights to get her taken back out. ObstructiveBureaucrat Ackland (Edward Chapman) takes advantage of the minor scandal to try to steal Searle's job.
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!!''Mandy'' contains examples of:
* CharacterNarrator: Kit narrates the first few scenes.
* ImpairmentShot: Shots from Mandy's perspective are silent.
* KidsAreCruel: Almost every interaction Mandy has with hearing kids is unpleasant. At one point, a boy takes her ball and won't give it back until she says "please." When she can't, he plays piggie in the middle with his friend, taunting her with it, until she attacks him and pulls his hair.
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Mandy Garland (Mandy Miller) is born without auditory nerves. Her parents, Harry (Terence Morgan) and Christine, aka Kit (Phillis Calvert), and her grandparents (Godfrey Tearle and Marjorie Fielding) keep her sheltered from the world, and by age six she's desperately lonely and doesn't know any language, despite efforts to teach her fingerspelling. Kit enrolls her in the Bishop David School for the Deaf, which focuses on teaching kids to speak. Headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), new teacher Miss Crocker (Patricia Plunkett), and deaf founder Jane Ellis (Nancy Price) work to teach Mandy, but Harry disapproves of Kit's decision to place her in the school and fights to get her taken back out. ObstructiveBureaucrat Ackland (Edward Chapman) takes advantage of the minor scandal to try to steal Searle's job.
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!!''Mandy'' contains examples of:
* CharacterNarrator: Kit narrates the first few scenes.
* ImpairmentShot: Shots from Mandy's perspective are silent.
* KidsAreCruel: Almost every interaction Mandy has with hearing kids is unpleasant. At one point, a boy takes her ball and won't give it back until she says "please." When she can't, he plays piggie in the middle with his friend, taunting her with it, until she attacks him and pulls his hair.
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