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.

Release Date: 1974-03-27

Genres: Drama

Director: Martin Ritt

Actors: Jon Voight ,Paul Winfield ,Madge Sinclair ,Tina Andrews ,Antonio Fargas ,Ruth Attaway ,James O'Rear ,Gracia Lee ,C.P. MacDonald ,Hume Cronyn

Duration: 1h 46m

IMDB rating: 6.8