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28 August 1974 (Sweden)
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One beautiful man. His story is true.
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A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families...
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Rural Setting
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1 win
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1 nomination
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Hooray for Hollywoodized!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jon Voight | ... | Pat Conroy |
 | Paul Winfield | ... | Mad Billy |
| Madge Sinclair | ... | Mrs. Scott (school principal) |
 | Tina Andrews | ... | Mary |
| Antonio Fargas | ... | Quickfellow |
| Ruth Attaway | ... | Edna |
| James O'Rear | ... | Postman |
| 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 | ... | Mr. Skeffington (school superintendent) |
| Mac Arthur Nelson | ... | Mac |
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106 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Conrack is Los Angeles Clippers' great Elgin Baylor's favorite movie.
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Referenced in The Cat in the Hat (2003)
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Fifth Symphony
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Pat Conroy is one of our most elegant writers, and his first book, a memoir of his adventure teaching a group of heart-breakingly neglected and ignorant black children on an island off the coast of South Carolina should be required upper-class reading for kids who have To Kill a Mockingbird under their belts.
Now, the movie: If you read the book, the movie will seem so Hollywoodized that you'll wonder who "cuted-up" Conrack (the kids' pronunciation for Conroy). Jon Voight is earnest and sweaty, and pulls off Conroy's youthful self-righteousness to a T, but Hume Cronyn is miscast as the evil, bigoted superintendent. The kids are strangely ignored here, although they are complex and fascinating in their own right in the book. Voight's teaching is the best part of this film, but Conroy's explanation to the white citizenry of why he should be retained--after annoying the county school administration for the last time--is destroyed by the ridiculous scene with Voight driving the streets of Buford, using a P.A. system on his hippiemobile to bludgeon bewildered suburbanites.
Hell, watch it anyway.