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Director:
Writers:
Pat Conroy (novel)
Irving Ravetch (writer) ...
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Release Date:
28 August 1974 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Tagline:
One beautiful man. His story is true.
Plot:
A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Actor Paul Winfield Dies at 62
 (From WENN. 9 March 2004)

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Hooray for Hollywoodized! more (27 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
106 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Conrack is Los Angeles Clippers' great Elgin Baylor's favorite movie. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Cat in the Hat (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Fifth Symphony more

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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Hooray for Hollywoodized!, 25 March 2005
Author: inspectors71 from The Man-Cave

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.

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