Conrack
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.
The Water Is Wide
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacraw Island. Staffless 'head' mistress Brown incarnates stupidity and blind rule obedience, her didactic skills consisting in scolding and spanking her students. Pat moves heaven and earth to motivate and educate, but after finally getting trough to pupils and parents is refused contract renewal by the arch-conservative authorities.
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Martin Ritt
Director
Paul Winfield
as
Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair
as
Mrs. Scott
Jon Voight
as
Pat Conroy
Hume Cronyn
as
Skeffington
Julianne Nicholson
as
Barbara
Robert John Burke
as
Colonel Conroy
Alfre Woodard
as
Mrs. Brown
Robert Clotworthy
as
Self - Narrator
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