
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.


“One beautiful man. His story is true.”
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.

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
Conrack is a drama film released in 1974 exploring themes of island, south carolina, teacher, school, racism, gullah. Directed by Martin Ritt, it stars Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair. 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.
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