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).
Differences between the book and the film
- The most distinct difference between the film and the book is that the film established names for the characters, which the book did not.
- The white people in the book are more truculent, cruel and racist than those in the film.
- Both Sounder and his master’s father are more horribly injured in the book than in the movie.
