Dummy

Drama, TV Movie

🏆 Fan Favorite

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Frank Perry

Status Released

Release Date 1979-05-27

Storyline

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.