The Paper Chase

Voices of Silence

E5    Oct 10, 1978
As part of Prof. Rolf's prison internship program for first year students, Logan is assigned to help in a hearing of a political activist, Eric Ryerson, who was put in solitary confinement for stabbing a fellow prisoner. Ryerson convinces Logan that the prison establishment is only supressing him for his political activism and Logan is taken in, emotionally as well.

Kingsfield is not in favor of this program because he believes that the students are not ready scholastically and that it takes away valuable time from their other studies. Logan is banished to the back bench in his class for being late as a result of her work in the program.

Hart displays his fluency in Spanish, acting as interpreter of another prisoner, Sanchez - the prisoner who was stabbed. At first Sanchez denies that it was Ryerson who stabbed him (because he and other prisoners are afraid of Ryerson), but we find out that Ryerson stabbed him because Sanchez would not give Ryerson a cool pair of sunglasses.

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Cast of Voices of Silence
  • John HousemanCharles Kingsfield
  • James StevensJames T. Hart
  • Charles HallahanErnie
  • Stanley DeSantisGagarian
  • Robert GintyThomas Craig Anderson
  • Betty HarfordMrs Nottingham
  • Francine TackerElizabeth Logan
  • James KeaneWillis Bell
  • Jonathan SegalJonathan Brooks
  • Deka BeaudineAsheley Brooks
  • Tom FitzsimmonsFranklin Ford III
  • Pepe Serna
  • David Ackroyd

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