Overview
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 as Pat Conroy
- Paul Winfield as Mad Billy
- Madge Sinclair as Mrs. Scott
- Tina Andrews as Mary
- Antonio Fargas as Quickfellow
- Ruth Attaway as Edna
- James O'Rear as Messenger
- Gracia Lee as Mrs. Sellers
- C.P. MacDonald as Mr. Ryder
- Jane Moreland as Mrs. Webster