Conrack

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Conrack, 1974.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Conrack, 1974.

On his second day teaching on Dafuskie Island, South Carolina (shot on location at Sea Island, Ga), 1969, Jon Voight as author Pat Conroy goes for an unorthodox physical approach, tangling with Top Cat (Ellis Lamar Cash) and riling his principal (Madge Sinclair), in Conrack, 1974.

More unorthodox teaching, by Jon Voight as the title character, from the memoir by Pat Conroy, getting the usual mixed results from his South Carolina island pupils, observed by Hume Cronyn as his superintendent, visiting from the mainland, in Martin Ritt’s Conrack, 1974.

Taking his class afield in coastal South Carolina, 1969, Jon Voight as the author Pat Conroy in the film based on his memoir, mixing English poets and botany, surprised to meet Paul Winfield, as moonshiner Mad Billy, in director Martin Ritt’s Conrack, 1974.

Following credits in which he crossed from the South Carolina mainland (actually Brunswick to Sea Island, Ga), Jon Voight as the title character, from the memoir by Pat Conroy, meets Mary (Tina Andrews) then his new boss, principal Mrs. Scott (Madge Sinclair), Martin Ritt directing, in Conrack, 1974.