Conrack

March. 27,1974      PG
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jon Voight as  Pat Conroy
Paul Winfield as  Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair as  Mrs. Scott
Tina Andrews as  Mary
Antonio Fargas as  Quickfellow
Ruth Attaway as  Edna
James O'Rear as  Messenger
Hume Cronyn as  Skeffington

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