coming on the heels of that 1970 blackploitation era and conrack (20th century fox and 1974) offered audiences a low key and sincere and everyday people sort of a drama. offering a far different fair to its audience (which was far more general than those gansta flicks) while being a down to earth dose of realism that offered a lonely counterbalance to those shoot em ups. replacing lead characters that were bad ass detectives and super flies and megs or macks or pimps (take your pick in terminology) and was a lone and humble and meek teacher. the academian we speak of is the main character and pat conroy while who is the one and only lone teacher hired to take on the responsibility of a sort of old time one room school house on an island off the coast of south carolina. conrack (jon voight) and the name that the youngsters dub him finds conditions in the school terribly backward. in addition to the physical properties of this little red schoolhouse and any systematic and progressively graduated educational system was totally absent. oh yeah and by the way and did we mention that further complications to any successful educational venture were manifested in two incontrovertible facts. those were that pat conroy was both an outsider and he was white while with almost the entire population of this off shore cay was black and very poor. perpetuating these unacceptable and deplorable conditions were the agents of the local board of education while being the school principal and mrs. scott (madge sinclair) and the superintendent and mr. skeffington (mr. hume cronyn). between the two and we are made to understand that the teacher and being the low man on the totem pole and is powerless in most respects to affect any sort of meaningful and long lasting improvements. but do not you tell a young turk and such as pat conroy and that he can not. (can not anything and that is). conrack spends a year of unorthodox classroom performances and is making real progress while but alas and the strong headed teacher would not give in and recognize the authority of his superiors. while he is and by law and unbeknownst to him and serving at thee super pleasure while he disobeys mr. skeffington specific order and prohibition to take his class kids to the mainland of south carolina on halloween for some trick or treating while even going to the brazen act of stopping with them at the skeffington residence. next we see a western union telegram messenger happily singing as he crosses from the carolina mainland to the island while where he delivers the telegram to conroy that bore the news of his dismissal from his position with that school and district. not being one to take his being fired lying down and pat files suit against mr. skeffington and principal mrs. scott and the board of education protesting his dismissal as being unlawful. impartially reviewing both the offense and the law and the judge asks skeffington if there are any lesser punishments that could be substituted for conroy being separated from the school system while to which he receives a negative response. fittingly and the judge dismisses the suit with his gavel pounding down while saying and it very simple. the story is brought to a bittersweet conclusion as the conrack tudents see him off to the mainland bound launch and while a phonograph record provides us with beethovens 5th symphony while which had played an important part in the conroy educational agenda and as well as our story. in the humble opinion of this writer and the story (which we believe was at least semi autobiographical and even giving the main character the name of its author) and was much more than a tale of a localized happening. to both me pal schultz and meself while this is a sort of depiction of a microcosm that represents the overall deplorable conditions that permeate the government schools throughout the entire nation. (just an opinion) as for this film and it was just one of many movies portraying the stores of common folk while leading their lives of quiet desperation in the great hinterlands of the country and which lie outside the d. c. beltway and the urban centers of enterprise and communications situated on either the atlantic or pacific coasts. in its own small way and this is a fine film and which would soon be joined in the film vaults of 20th century fox by such great works as norma rae and breaking away. (both being from tcf in 1979). see it if you ain not yet. recommended by both schulz and his buddy. note represent why and that me and of course. poodle schnitz. 
coming on the heels of that 1970 blackploitation era and conrack (20th century fox and 1974) offered audiences a low key and sincere and everyday people sort of a drama. offering a far different fair to its audience (which was far more general than those gansta flicks) while being a down to earth dose of realism that offered a lonely counterbalance to those shoot em ups. replacing lead characters that were bad ass detectives and super flies and megs or macks or pimps (take your pick in terminology) and was a lone and humble and meek teacher. the academian we speak of is the main character and pat conroy while who is the one and only lone teacher hired to take on the responsibility of a sort of old time one room school house on an island off the coast of south carolina. conrack (jon voight) and the name that the youngsters dub him finds conditions in the school terribly backward. in addition to the physical properties of this little red schoolhouse and any systematic and progressively graduated educational system was totally absent. oh yeah and by the way and did we mention that further complications to any successful educational venture were manifested in two incontrovertible facts. those were that pat conroy was both an outsider and he was white while with almost the entire population of this off shore cay was black and very poor. perpetuating these unacceptable and deplorable conditions were the agents of the local board of education while being the school principal and mrs. scott (madge sinclair) and the superintendent and mr. skeffington (mr. hume cronyn). between the two and we are made to understand that the teacher and being the low man on the totem pole and is powerless in most respects to affect any sort of meaningful and long lasting improvements. but do not you tell a young turk and such as pat conroy and that he can not. (can not anything and that is). conrack spends a year of unorthodox classroom performances and is making real progress while but alas and the strong headed teacher would not give in and recognize the authority of his superiors. while he is and by law and unbeknownst to him and serving at thee super pleasure while he disobeys mr. skeffington specific order and prohibition to take his class kids to the mainland of south carolina on halloween for some trick or treating while even going to the brazen act of stopping with them at the skeffington residence. next we see a western union telegram messenger happily singing as he crosses from the carolina mainland to the island while where he delivers the telegram to conroy that bore the news of his dismissal from his position with that school and district. not being one to take his being fired lying down and pat files suit against mr. skeffington and principal mrs. scott and the board of education protesting his dismissal as being unlawful. impartially reviewing both the offense and the law and the judge asks skeffington if there are any lesser punishments that could be substituted for conroy being separated from the school system while to which he receives a negative response. fittingly and the judge dismisses the suit with his gavel pounding down while saying and it very simple. the story is brought to a bittersweet conclusion as the conrack tudents see him off to the mainland bound launch and while a phonograph record provides us with beethovens 5th symphony while which had played an important part in the conroy educational agenda and as well as our story. in the humble opinion of this writer and the story (which we believe was at least semi autobiographical and even giving the main character the name of its author) and was much more than a tale of a localized happening. to both me pal schultz and meself while this is a sort of depiction of a microcosm that represents the overall deplorable conditions that permeate the government schools throughout the entire nation. (just an opinion) as for this film and it was just one of many movies portraying the stores of common folk while leading their lives of quiet desperation in the great hinterlands of the country and which lie outside the d. c. beltway and the urban centers of enterprise and communications situated on either the atlantic or pacific coasts. in its own small way and this is a fine film and which would soon be joined in the film vaults of 20th century fox by such great works as norma rae and breaking away. (both being from tcf in 1979). see it if you ain not yet. recommended by both schulz and his buddy. note represent why and that me and of course. poodle schnitz. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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