Sounder (film)

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Sounder (the movie)
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Directed by	Martin Ritt
Produced by	Robert B. Radnitz
Written by	Lonne Elder III
Starring	Cicely Tyson Paul Winfield Kevin Hooks Carmen Mathews Taj Mahal Eric Hooks
Cinematography	John A. Alonzo
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox
Release date(s)	1972
Running time	105 min
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Sounder is a 1972 film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, and Eric Hooks. It was adapted by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sounder by William H. Armstrong and spawned a sequel, Part 2, Sounder (1976).

The most distinct difference between the film and the book is that the film established names for the characters, which the book did not.

In 2003, ABC's Wonderful World of Disney aired a new film adaptation, reuniting two actors from the original. Kevin Hooks directed and Paul Winfield played the role of the teacher. (Winfield and Hooks played father and son, respectively, in the original version.)

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