FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 1972
- Language: English
- Color
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
- Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
- Features: Chapter Select, Interactive Menu
- Technical: Single Layer, Single Sided, Full Screen
- DVD Region: 1
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
An African-American sharecropper's family struggles to survive the Great Depression in this live-action adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning book by William A. Armstrong, starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield. Set in Louisiana during the Depression, the film tells the story of sharecropper Nathan Lee Morgan, who is arrested for stealing food to feed his hungry family. With Nathan in prison, his wife and children must struggle to survive the economic depression and prejudice of the 1930s South while hoping for a more promising future.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...an unsentimental yet moving drama...Highly recommended." - Video Librarian (May/June 2009)FULL REVIEWS
Video Librarian (May 2009)
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"Martin Ritt’s 1972 adaptation of William H. Armstrong’s Newbery award-winning novel is an unsentimental yet moving drama about an African-American sharecropper family in Louisiana struggling in the midst of the Great Depression. Paul Winfield stars as Nathan Lee Morgan, who after being caught stealing food to feed his near-starving children is sentenced to a year of hard labor far from home. The Morgan family’s struggles—under matriarch Rebecca (Cicely Tyson)—to survive during Nathan Lee’s absence ultimately leads the oldest son David (Kevin Hooks) to embark on a quest with family dog Sounder to find the prison where his father is incarcerated. Along the way, David meets a teacher at an all-black school, where he is invited to attend full-time, presenting a dilemma for the bright young man, who is reluctant to go to a school so far from the family he believes needs him so much. Boasting strong supporting performances from Taj Mahal and Carmen Mathews, Sounder was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Screenplay, Actor (Winfield), and Actress (Tyson). Highly recommended.