

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.
Director: Martin Ritt
Writers: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Pat Conroy
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