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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas, Ruth Attaway
Crew: John Williams (Original Music Composer), Martin Ritt (Director), Pat Conroy (Novel), Harriet Frank Jr. (Screenplay), Irving Ravetch (Screenplay), Richard Kobritz (Associate Producer)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Runtime: 106 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 27, 1974
IMDb: 4.3
