Conrack

Conrack (1974)

One beautiful man. His story is true.

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.

Date of release
1974-03-27
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (42)
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
Drama
Director
Martin Ritt

Casting

Interesting facts

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. The film was released by 20th Century Fox on March 15, 1974.

Production

This film was shot mostly on Saint Simons Island, Georgia at what was then known as Taylor's Fish Camp and also in nearby Brunswick, Georgia and used pupils from C.B. Greer Elementary school as the cast of students.

Tommy Tedesco played guitar on the introduction theme.

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