

“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.

James O'Rear
Messenger

Gracia Lee
Mrs. Sellers

C.P. MacDonald
Mr. Ryder

Jane Moreland
Mrs. Webster

Thomas Horton
Judge

Nancy Butler
Mrs. Ryder

Robert W. Page
Mr. Spaulding

Hume Cronyn
Skeffington

Ronnie Leggett
Ronnie