History Film / JohnnyBelinda

* DeathByChildbirth: Belinda's mother in the backstory. Belinda's father resents her for it.

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* {{Nephewism}}: Belinda was raised by her father and aunt after her mother died in childbirth.

Dr. Robert Richardson (Ayres) has recently set up practice in a small fishing village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. His secretary Stella (Jan Sterling) takes a shine to him, but the doctor ignores her attentions. He is too busy taking an interest in the case of Belinda [=MacDonald=] (Wyman), a young deaf-mute woman who lives with her widowed father (Charles Bickford) and spinster aunt (Creator/AgnesMoorehead). Dr. Richardson teaches Belinda how to read, how to read lips, and how to communicate with sign language. He then takes her to a specialist who delivers the sad news that Belinda's deafness can't be cured, as well as the very surprising news that Belinda is pregnant. The town gossips all assume that Dr. Richardson is the father, but the real father is Locky [=McCormick=] (Stephen [=McNally=]), a local fisherman who raped Belinda.

Dr. Robert Richardson (Ayres) has recently set up practice in a small fishing village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. His secretary Stella (Jan Sterling) takes a shine to him, but the doctor ignores her attentions. He is too busy taking an interest in the case of Belinda [=MacDonald=] (Wyman), a young deaf-mute woman who lives with her widowed father (Charles Bickford) and spinster aunt (Creator/AgnesMoorehead). Dr. Richardson teaches Belinda how to read, how to read lips, and how to communicate with sign language. He then takes her to a specialist who delivers the sad news that Belinda's deafness can't be cured, as well as the very surprising news that Belinda is pregnant. The town gossips all assume that Dr. Richardson is the father, but the real father is Locky (Stephen [=McNally=]), a local fisherman who raped Belinda.

Ayres is Dr. Robert Richardson, the new doctor who arrives in a fishing village in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. His secretary Stella takes a shine to him, but the doctor ignores her attentions. He is too busy taking an interest in the case of Belinda [=McDonald=], a young deaf-mute woman who lives with her aunt and her widowed father. Dr. Richardson teaches Belinda how to read, how to read lips, and how to communicate with sign language. He then takes her to a specialist who delivers the sad news that Belinda's deafness can't be cured, as well as the very surprising news that Belinda is pregnant. The town gossips all assume that Dr. Richardson is the father, but the real father is Locky, a local fisherman who raped Belinda.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "She looks right spry for a woman who's just had her arteries cut out."..."Not her [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovary arteries]], Mrs. Lutz."

* CanadaDoesNotExist: Aside from the film being stated to take place in Nova Scotia, and some different terminology in the court scenes (the judge gets called "my lord" etc.) you'd be pretty hard-pressed to notice it's in Canada, not the US. It was made by Americans in California, so this isn't really surprising.

* SacrificialLion: The death of the father. It pushes Locky into the pure evil category, helping the audience to [[AssholeVictim feel good about his murder]].

* ThreeMonthOldNewborn: New-born Johnny looks at least three months old.
* TraumaCongaLine: Your mother dies in childbirth. You go deaf and mute due to an illness shortly thereafter. You get raped. Your father falls off a cliff and dies. The town tries to take from you your child by rape. You have to shoot your rapist to keep him from stealing your baby. Then you're tried for murder.