Release Date: 1974-03-27
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.
Rating: 6.8 / 10
Jon Voight
as Pat Conroy
Paul Winfield
as Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair
as Mrs. Scott
Tina Andrews
as Mary
Antonio Fargas
as Quickfellow
John Williams - Original Music Composer
Martin Ritt - Director
Pat Conroy - Novel
Harriet Frank Jr. - Screenplay
Irving Ravetch - Screenplay
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