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Sounder is a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel of the same name by William H. Armstrong. [4] The story concerns an African-American sharecropper family in the Deep South, who struggle with economic and personal hardships during the Great Depression.
Apr 26, 1973 · Sounder: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews. The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
The movie is set in rural Louisiana in about 1933, and involves a black sharecropper family. The boy, David Lee, is twelve or thirteen years old, just the right age to delight in the night-time raccoon hunts he goes on with his father and their hound, Sounder. The hunts are not recreation but necessity.
The meaning of SOUNDER is one that sounds; specifically : a device for making soundings.
When his wife Rebecca (Cicely Tyson) sends their young son (Kevin Hooks) to visit him, the boy's journey becomes a life changing rite of passage. Critic Roger Ebert praised Sounder, calling it "a...
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South, after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. The family has struggled to find...
