Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Released
- 27 March 1974
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Writers
- Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
- Countries
- United States of America
- Languages
- English
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
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Cast
Jon Voight
Paul Winfield
Madge Sinclair
Tina Andrews
Antonio Fargas
Ruth Attaway
James O'Rear- GGracia Lee
- CC.P. MacDonald
- JJane Moreland