Dead Silence (1997 film)

Dead Silence (1997 film)
Directed by Daniel Petrie Jr.
Produced by John Kemeny
Written by Donald Stewart
Based on A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver
Starring James Garner, Marlee Matlin, Kim Coates
Music by Jonathan Goldsmith
Cinematography Thomas Burstyn
Edited by Ronald Sanders
Production
company
Distributed by HBO
Release dates
January 11, 1997
Running time
99 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Dead Silence is a 1997 made-for-TV thriller based upon the Jeffery Deaver novel A Maiden's Grave. The plot of the book and the film, based upon a true incident, revolved around a group of eight deaf students and their two teachers, who are captured and held hostage by three escaped felons. The TV film starred James Garner as FBI hostage negotiator John Potter, Marlee Matlin as hostage teacher Melanie Charrol and Kim Coates as hostage-taker Theodore "Ted" Handy.

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