Tommy (1975)

Musical story about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who enters his own private world after witnessing the murder of his father. After learning that her husband, an RAF bomber pilot, has been killed, Nora Walker (Ann-Margret) gives birth to a son, Tommy, on V-E Day, May 8, 1945. Growing up, the young Tommy (Barry Winch) idolizes his Uncle Frank - Frank Hobbs, (Oliver Reed) a holiday camp host who marries Nora and moves into her house. But when the still-living Group Captain Walker (Robert Powell) returns unexpectedly to find Nora in bed with Hobbs, the ensuing fight leaves the heretofore missing pilot dead. The shock of witnessing the entire scene traumatizes six-year old Tommy, leaving him deaf, dumb, and blind. And though he can only sense vibrations or rhythms, he has his own thoughts and fantasies that are punctuated by his plea of See me, feel me, touch me, heal me -- a silent cry that no one can answer. By the 1970's, Nora and Frank have taken Tommy (Roger Daltrey) everywhere seeking a cure - to a faith-healing preacher (Eric Clapton), a famous psychiatrist (Jack Nicholson), and eventually to the bizarre Acid Queen (Tina Turner) whose unusual healing method involving LSD enables Tommy to see something at last - a red image in a mirror. Inspired by Pete Townshend's groundbreaking rock opera, all the words in TOMMY are sung.