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The Long Wait
The Long Wait (1954)
, 1h34
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay, Shirley Patterson

Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. McBride tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges. Thugs working for the local mob boss try to end his meddling.
Thursday's Children
Thursday's Children (1954)
, 21minutes
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films
Actors Richard Burton

Tourné dans l'école pour enfants sourds de Margate dans le Kent en Angleterre, le film s'intéresse aux visages et aux gestes de petits garçons et petites filles. L'école apprend la lecture sur les lèvres plutôt que la langue des signes, et le film note que seulement un enfant sur trois finit par acquérir un véritable langage parlé.
Long John Silver
Long John Silver (1954)
, 1h46
Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about disabilities, L'Or
Actors Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Rod Taylor, Henry Gilbert

The movie is set some time after the events of Treasure Island. Long John Silver receives grave news from Dod Perch of a massacre by Mendoza, who had also kidnapped Governor Strong's daughter Elizabeth for ransom along with Jim Hawkins. Long John also learns of a second treasure cache on Treasure Island; the only clue to its location is a pirate medallion. Long John visits Governor Strong and his wife and proposes to deliver the ransom before they pursue Mendoza.
Man with the Steel Whip
Man with the Steel Whip (1954)
, 2h47
Directed by Franklin Adreon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Richard "Dick" Simmons, Lane Bradford, Mauritz Hugo, Pat Hogan, Roy Barcroft, Stuart Randall

In a version of a standard western plot, the saloon owner Barnett wants the land under the local Indian Reservation for its gold deposits. In order to drive off the people living on the reservation, he forms a gang to attack the local ranchers and frame the Indians. Rancher Jerry Randall opposes him using the legendary masked identity of "El Latigo", friend to the Indians.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1953)
, 1h16
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Les fées, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Margaret Kerry, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Paul Collins

Set in London, circa 1900, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, told to them by their older sister, Wendy. Their father, who is fed up with the stories that have made his children less practical, angrily declares that Wendy has gotten too old to continue staying in the nursery with them, and it's time for her to grow up and have a room of her own. That night, they are visited in the nursery by Peter Pan himself, who teaches them to fly with the help of his pixie friend, Tinker Bell, and takes them with him to the island of Never Land.
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953)
, 1h33
Directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Antonella Lualdi, Paul Campbell, Paul Müller, Enzo Biliotti, Vera Carmi, Marilyn Buferd

Au XIX siècle, Naples est gouverné par les Bourbons. Le docteur Pisani est un patriote qui est injustement accusé pour avoir tué une marquise. Il ne veut pas trahir la cause et se laisse exécuter. Dix ans plus tard, son fils Oliviero qui a suivi des cours de médecine rétablit la vérité et veut épouser Béatrice, la fille de la marquise, devenue aveugle lors de l'assaut du château de sa mère par les patriotes révolutionnaires. Oliviero, étant devenu ophtalmologiste, guérit la jeune fille et l'épouse.
Man in the Dark
Man in the Dark (1953)
, 1h10
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, Nick Dennis, Horace McMahon, Ted de Corsia, William Tannen

Steve Rawley is serving a 10-year prison sentence from a Christmas Eve factory robbery that netted $130,000. He is offered an immediate parole if willing to undergo an experimental procedure by Dr. Marsden, a brain surgeon.
Mandy
Mandy (1952)
, 1h33
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Godfrey Tearle, Nancy Price

Harry and Christine Garland have a deaf daughter, Mandy. As they realise their daughter's situation, the parents enrol Mandy in special education classes to try to get her to speak. They quarrel in the process and their marriage comes under strain. There are also hints of a possible affair between Christine and Dick Searle, the headmaster of the school for the deaf where Mandy is enrolled. Eventually, the training succeeds to the point where Mandy says her own name for the first time. Mandy's speech was achieved by using a balloon. She was able to feel the vibrations of sound onto the balloon and knew she had made a sound.
Bright Victory
Bright Victory (1951)
, 1h36
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Political films, La cécité
Actors John Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Will Geer, Rock Hudson

During World War II, Larry Nevins, an American sergeant, is blinded by a German sniper while fighting in North Africa. He is taken to a hospital for other blinded soldiers, where he struggles to come to terms with his disability.
Journey Into Light
Journey Into Light (1951)
, 1h27
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Sterling Hayden, Viveca Lindfors, Thomas Mitchell, Ludwig Donath, H. B. Warner, Jane Darwell

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide.