Conrack

Plot Summary

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