Love Leads The Way: A True Story
– Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy...
07 Oct 1984
English
Delbert Mann
Henry Denker (teleplay by), Jimmy Hawkins (story by), Henry Denker (story by)
Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill, Glynnis O'Connor
When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down as he has trouble functioning in his sightless world. All seem hopeless until he learns of an innovative European project that trains dogs as guides for the blind. He explores the idea and decides to train for a dog. He eventually gets a guide dog, but soon learns that he is barred from taking his needed companion into transit vehicles and public buildings and businesses. With a newfound friend, he must fight to make the country recognize that those rules are unfair to him and his guide.
Hawkins/Permut Productions