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.
Cast
Jon Voight
Pat Conroy
Paul Winfield
Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair
Mrs. Scott
Tina Andrews
Mary
Antonio Fargas
Quickfellow
Ruth Attaway
Edna
James O'Rear
Messenger
Gracia Lee
Mrs. Sellers
C.P. MacDonald
Mr. Ryder
Jane Moreland
Mrs. Webster
Thomas Horton
Judge
Nancy Butler
Mrs. Ryder
Robert W. Page
Mr. Spaulding
Hume Cronyn
Skeffington
Ronnie Leggett
Ronnie
Crew
Martin Ritt
Director, Producer
Irving Ravetch
Screenplay
Harriet Frank Jr.
Screenplay, Producer
Pat Conroy
Novel
Frank Bracht
Editor
John A. Alonzo
Director of Photography
Anthony Brand
Second Assistant Director
Irby Smith
Assistant Director
Richard Kobritz
Associate Producer, Unit Production Manager
Walter Scott Herndon
Production Design
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Margo Baxley
Costume Design
John Williams
Original Music Composer
John McCarthy Jr.
Set Decoration
Marvin Weldon
Script Supervisor
