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6.8A 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
Themes
- island
- south carolina
- teacher
- school
- racism
- gullah
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
2,414 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
67%
- Year
- 1974
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Conrack
- Film.image
- conrack1974.jpg
- Film.caption
- 1974 Promotional Poster for Conrack
- Film.director
- Martin Ritt
- Film.producer
- Martin RittHarriet Frank Jr.
- Film.screenplay
- Harriet Frank Jr.Irving Ravetch
- Film.music
- John Williams
- Film.cinematography
- John A. Alonzo
- Film.editing
- Frank Bracht
- Film.distributor
- 20th Century Fox
- Film.runtime
- 106 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $2.37 million
- Film.gross
- $2 million (rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Screenwriter
- Harriet Frank Jr.
- Composer
- John Williams
- Producer
- Martin Ritt
- Cinematographer
- John A. Alonzo
- Narrative location
- South Carolina
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 990263
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- publication date
- 1974-01-01
- title
- Conrack
- distributed by
- 20th Century Studios
- review score
- 71%
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Article · Nederlands
Conrack is een Amerikaanse dramafilm uit 1974. Regisseur Martin Ritt baseerde het verhaal op dat uit het boek The Water Is Wide van Pat Conroy. De film won in 1976 de United Nations Award tijdens de uitreiking van de BAFTA Awards en werd genomineerd voor de Writers Guild of America Award voor het beste uit een ander medium overgenomen scenario.
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