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.

• DirectorMartin Ritt
• Release27 March 1974
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 46m
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  6.792
  36 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox