Conrack

Conrack1974

Genre: Drama
Conrack is a 1974 American drama film based on the 1972 autobiographical book The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Jon Voight in the title role, alongside Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Hume Cronyn and Antonio Fargas… more »



Pat Conroy:
Gang, we're going to learn all these records. We're gonna look like geniuses when we know all these songs. Visitors are going to come here, expecting nothing but stupidity and poverty - I'm going to switch on this record player - you're going to look those people right in the eye, and exclaim: "Are you perchance... familiar with the works of Rimsky-Korsakov?" We'll knock their behinds off... Now here we got something very sweet [begins playing record]... Brahms' Lullaby. You don't need any Seconal, any Phenobarb, or any Miltown. You just drop this on, and The Sandman's got you.

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