Sounder (1972)

The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
Martin Ritt
Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best, Eric Hooks, Yvonne Jarrell, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Teddy Airhart, Richard Durham, Wendell Brumfield, Al Bankston, Myrl Sharkey, Inez Durham, William T. Bennett, Thomas N. Phillips, Carl Braser, Jerry Leggio, Peter Goff, Walter L. Chaney, Roy Idom, Randy Wilson, Isaac Greggs, Jackie Spears, Porter Mathews, Timothy Smith, Spencer Bradford, Janet MacLachlan, Swampy
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