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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
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Subject: Re: The next voice you don't hear...
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 12:49:47 EST
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In article <1389@decwrl.DEC.COM> williams@ecadjr.DEC (Lather, rinse, repeat...) writes:
>In an earlier note about "The Brother From Another Planet", Alan 
>Wexelblat asked:-
>
>>Side note: can anyone think of any other movie in the "talkie" era where the
>>main character never speaks?  (the only one I can think of is Mel Brooks'
>>"Silent Movie", but that really doesn't count, as only one person says
>>anything in that movie.  (for 10 brownie points, can anyone remember who speaks
>	"Dumbo" (1941) - At first, this was a facetious choice, but as I
>		thought about it, it dawned on me that this choice was quite
>		valid.  Why??  Well, just about every animal in the film spoke
>		so language is accepted, but Dumbo never said word one.
>
>Skip Williams

Your mentioning of a Disney film, plus the non-specific aspect of the question
( Alan says only "main character", not actor/actress) prompts all kinds of 
titles, like; "Old Yeller", "Charlie the Lonesome Cougar", "Beaver Valley",
"Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion", etc.  Then there's Lassie (wasn't that a
movie?), The Flipper movies and show, "Gentle Ben", more etc.

More along the line of what Alan was looking for, I think:

The french film maker Jaques Tati (sp.?) I consider a comic genius and
visual wizard.  He portrays different characters in each of his films
but none of them have spoken as far as I recall. This gives them almost
universal appeal, for although most of the other actors speak in french,
it is absolutely not neccessary to know what they are saying to enjoy
the film.  

Some of his films are: "Mr. Hulot's Holiday", "Traffic", "My Uncle".

Dave

P.S. If I'm wrong about him speaking in any of these films, someone
please correct me.