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.
Acting
Voight's earnest fragility vs. Winfield's scene-stealing wisdom.
Direction
Ritt lets silence and landscape do the heavy lifting.
Writing
Conroy's autobiographical source keeps it painfully personal.
Director
Martin Ritt
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