The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Directed by John Kent Harrison · Written by Tony Foster
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John Bach Alexander Graham Bell -
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Brenda Fricker Eliza -
Jim McLarty Sumner Tainter - V Vanessa Vaughan
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Henry Czerny Casey Baldwin
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