Blue Fin (1978)

Directors

Carl Schultz

Cast

Elspeth Ballantyne, Greg Rowe, Hardy Krüger

The story

Based on the children's novel by South Australian author Colin Thiele, this is a father and son story about tuna fishing of southern bluefin 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.

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