Conrack (1974)

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

Storyline

White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited exclusively by blacks. He quickly learns that his students, who have never left the island, lack not only a basic understanding of academic items such as the alphabet and simple arithmetic, but also of other basic necessities of life such as personal hygiene. They can't even pronounce his name, they who call him Conrack. The teachers before him, including the school principal Mrs. Scott, have always treated the students as being slow and basically unteachable of academics. Conrack, a free thinking man, decides to expose his students not only to the academic subjects, but also to the gamut of life skills from brushing one's teeth to human anatomy... Written by Huggo  

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