Conrack (1974)
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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
In Theaters:3/27/1974
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Runtime:106 minutes
Studio:20th Century Fox
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