Conrack (1974)

6.7/10 • 106 min • Drama

Overview

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.

Cast

Jon Voight

Paul Winfield

Madge Sinclair

Tina Andrews

Antonio Fargas

Ruth Attaway

James O'Rear

Messenger

Hume Cronyn

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