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Conrack is a 1974 American drama film based on the 1972 autobiographical book The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Jon Voight in the title role, alongside Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Hume Cronyn and Antonio Fargas.
Jun 7, 1974 · Conrack: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews. The true story of Pat Conroy, a handsome, idealistic Caucasian who is an elementary-school instructor for a group of poor Black children in an isolated school.
Jun 19, 2018 · Conrack (1974), his fifth of eight collaborations with husband-and-wife screenwriting team Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch (who shared Ritt's passion for socially relevant subjects and stories), takes on all of those themes.
A young Caucasian teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor Black families.
In this uplifting drama based on the memoir "The Water is Wide," Pat Conroy (Jon Voight) accepts a teaching position on an isolated island in South Carolina. There he finds a class of black ...
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Conrack. The true story of an idealistic young white teacher and his adventures as a grade-school instructor for a group of poor black children in an isolated South Carolina school - are they ready for yoga and Beethoven? 31 IMDb 7.3 1 h 46 min 1974. PG.
Jon Voight was superb as the title character of Pat Conroy (Conrack was what his students called him) - a young schoolteacher sent to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina to teach a class of black and mostly illiterate students, and who runs into opposition from everyone - the parents, his principal (Madge Sinclair) and the school ...
Conrack, a free thinking man, decides to expose his students not only to the academic subjects, but also to the gamut of life skills from brushing one's teeth to human anatomy, and some of...
Nov 28, 2020 · https://www.daaracarchive.org/2020/11... In this uplifting drama based on the memoir "The Water is Wide," Pat Conroy (Jon Voight) accepts a teaching position on an isolated island in...
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.
