| Back Street (1961) DVD |
White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he
starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the
island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited exclusively by blacks. He quickly learns that his students, who have
never left the island, lack not only a basic understanding of academic items such as the alphabet and simple arithmetic,
but also of other basic necessities of life such as personal hygiene. They can't even pronounce his name, they who call him
Conrack. The teachers before him, including the school principal Mrs. Scott, have always treated the students as being
slow and basically unteachable of academics. Conrack, a free thinking man, decides to expose his students not only to the
academic subjects, but also to the gamut of life skills from brushing one's teeth to human anatomy, and
some of the fun things in life like classical music, art, baseball, movies, swimming (despite living on an island, the islanders
live in fear of the river because they don't know how to swim) and Halloween. He does so with compassion and without
being patronizing. His teaching methods come under question by both Mrs. Scott and the Beauford School District
administration led by its superintendent, Mr. Skeffington. These differences in viewpoint may place Conrack's tenure at the
school in jeopardy.
CAST
Jon Voight Jon Voight ... Pat Conroy
Paul Winfield Paul Winfield ... Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair Madge Sinclair ... Mrs. Scott (school principal)
Tina Andrews Tina Andrews ... Mary
Runtime:106 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
(Will play in all DVD Players)
starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the
island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited exclusively by blacks. He quickly learns that his students, who have
never left the island, lack not only a basic understanding of academic items such as the alphabet and simple arithmetic,
but also of other basic necessities of life such as personal hygiene. They can't even pronounce his name, they who call him
Conrack. The teachers before him, including the school principal Mrs. Scott, have always treated the students as being
slow and basically unteachable of academics. Conrack, a free thinking man, decides to expose his students not only to the
academic subjects, but also to the gamut of life skills from brushing one's teeth to human anatomy, and
some of the fun things in life like classical music, art, baseball, movies, swimming (despite living on an island, the islanders
live in fear of the river because they don't know how to swim) and Halloween. He does so with compassion and without
being patronizing. His teaching methods come under question by both Mrs. Scott and the Beauford School District
administration led by its superintendent, Mr. Skeffington. These differences in viewpoint may place Conrack's tenure at the
school in jeopardy.
CAST
Jon Voight Jon Voight ... Pat Conroy
Paul Winfield Paul Winfield ... Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair Madge Sinclair ... Mrs. Scott (school principal)
Tina Andrews Tina Andrews ... Mary
Runtime:106 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
(Will play in all DVD Players)
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