Storyline
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.
Top 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
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Gracia Lee
Mrs. Sellers
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C.P. MacDonald
Mr. Ryder
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Jane Moreland
Mrs. Webster
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Thomas Horton
Judge
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Nancy Butler
Mrs. Ryder
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Robert W. Page
Mr. Spaulding
Hume Cronyn
Skeffington
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Ronnie Leggett
Ronnie
Director
Martin Ritt
Writers
Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
Status
Released
