Release Date

01 Dec, 1978

Runtime

01:28: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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.

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Actors

Hardy Krüger

Greg Rowe

Liddy Clark

John Jarratt

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Alfred Bell

Ralph Cotterill

George Spartels

Jock Owen

Elspeth Ballantyne

Terry Camilleri

Crew

Colin Thiele

Sonia Borg

Carl Schultz