Blue Fin facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Blue Fin |
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| Directed by | Carl Schultz |
| Produced by | Hal McElroy |
| Written by | Sonia Borg |
| Starring | Hardy Krüger Greg Rowe Elspeth Ballantyne |
| Music by | Michael Carlos |
| Cinematography | Geoff Burton |
| Editing by | Rod Adamson |
| Studio | South Australian Film Corporation McElroy and McElroy |
| Distributed by | Pacific International Enterprises |
| Release date(s) | November 1978 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | AU $750,000 |
| Money made | AU $703,000 (Australia) |
Blue Fin is a 1978 Australian family film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne. It is based on a 1969 Australian novel written by Colin Thiele.
Plot
Based on the children's novel by South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is a 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 his past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Twelve-year-old Steve Pascoe is nicknamed 'Snook' by everyone in Port Lincoln. He's thin and long-faced, like the fish he's named after. At school he's no good at sport and, at home, his father scorns him. Snook joins his father and fellow crewmen on a tuna-fishing expedition, when disaster strikes. It is up to Snook to save himself and his father from a desperate situation.
Cast
- Hardy Krüger as Bill Pascoe
- Greg Rowe as Steve "Snook" Pascoe
- Liddy Clark as Ruth Pascoe
- Elspeth Ballantyne as Mrs. Pascoe
- John Jarratt as Sam Snell
- Hugh Keays-Byrne as Stan
Proposed Remake
In 2017 it was announced the movie would be remade.
