The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

6.3/ 10

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1939

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98 min

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Drama
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Overview

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Keywords

inventor
telephone
biography
historical figure

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 22, 2022

6
6/10

Don Ameche takes the title role in this biopic of the Boston-based Scotsman credited with the invention of the telephone, and he does bring a certain passion to an otherwise rather procedural drama. The story traces the development of his experiments with his friend Thomas Watson (Henry Fonda) and p

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tmcd77

November 3, 2024

4
4/10

Worth a watch once, but that's it. The reason for watching, the invention of the Telephone, is largely glossed over and background noise. The main thrust of this story is a little too Mills & Boon, Bell falling in love with the deaf daughter of one of his backers. Very much an aged Romantic Drama of

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