Ben Mankiewicz Intro - The Learning Tree (1969)

Learning Tree, The (1969) -- (Movie Clip) I Ain't Got No People

Mom Winger (Estelle Evans) works for Judge Cavanaugh (Russell Thorson), her son Newt (Kyle Johnson) and his (Zooey Hall) also present, before the sentencing of Marcus (Alex Clarke), which pleases Sheriff Kirky (Dana Elcar), in Gordon Parks Sr.'s semi-autobiographical The Learning Tree, 1969.

Learning Tree, The (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Old Man Kiner's Apples

Newt (Kyle Johnson, in the role modeled on writer-director Gordon Parks Sr.) with pals (Stephen Perry, Carter Vinnegar, Bobby Goss) gets led astray by troubled Marcus (Alex Clarke), rancher Kiner (George Mitchell) the victim, in 1920's Kansas, early in The Learning Tree, 1969.

Learning Tree, The (1969) -- (Movie Clip) I Can't Find Newt

A storm blows up in Kansas opening the largely autobiographical movie directing debut by renowned photographer Gordon Parks Sr., from his screenplay and novel, Kyle Johnson as his stand-in Newt, Carole Lamond the local working girl who rescues him, in The Learning Tree, 1969.