Conrack (1974)

6.8/10 106 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

Pat Conroy

Paul Winfield

Mad Billy

Madge Sinclair

Mrs. Scott

Tina Andrews

Mary

Antonio Fargas

Quickfellow

Ruth Attaway

Edna

James O'Rear

Messenger

Hume Cronyn

Skeffington

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