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.
Genre: Drama Actors: Antonio Fargas, C.P. MacDonald, Gracia Lee, Hume Cronyn, James O'Rear, Jane Moreland, Jon Voight, Madge Sinclair, Nancy Butler, Paul Winfield, Robert W. Page, Ruth Attaway, Thomas Horton, Tina Andrews Directors: Martin Ritt Production: 20th Century Fox
