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Blue Fin (1978)

Blue Fin (1978)

Drama Adventure Family

High seas adventure from the makers of "Storm Boy".

Release Date: 1978, December 1
Directors: Carl Schultz
Countries: Australia
Production: South Australian Film Corporation
Cast: Hugh Keays-Byrne, Terry Camilleri, John Jarratt, George Spartels, Hardy Krüger, Alfred Bell, Ralph Cotterill, Elspeth Ballantyne, Liddy Clark, Greg Rowe, Jock Owen

Overview:

Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.