Released
Conrack
March 27 1974 (over 50 years ago)Rating
67
Based on
32 reviews
One beautiful man. His story is true.
- Director: Martin Ritt
- Writers: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 46 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: 20th Century Fox
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.
