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The Water Is Wide
First Published: 1972
260 pages
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About The Movie
In one of his finest if largely unheralded performances on film, Jon Voight plays Pat Conroy in director Martin Ritt´s Conrack, the 1974 film adaptation of The Water Is Wide. The gentle, upbeat film was not a commercial hit, though critics liked it -- a frustrating kind of success that would be repeated six years later with the film version of Conroy´s The Great Santini. Voight "seems to have come strappingly alive," critic Pauline Kael wrote of the star´s high-spirited work here, adding that the film "takes its mood from Voight´s roller-coaster performance. It has the airy feeling of the teacher´s improvising nature; it has his gusto."
Conrack reunited the once-blacklisted Ritt with the writing team of Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. -- a perfect match for the material. For Ritt, Ravetch and Frank had written the 1958 screen adaptation of Faulkner´s The Long Hot Summer and won an Oscar nomination and a Writers Guild of America award in 1963 for the screenplay for Hud. (Later, Ritt would work with Ravetch and Frank on Norma Rae and Murphy´s Romance.) The cast of Conrack includes Madge Sinclair as the school´s principal, Hume Cronyn, Ruth Attaway, Paul Winfield (who had starred in Ritt´s Sounder two years earlier), Tina Andrews and Antonio Fargas.
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