Blue Fin
5.9
“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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Cast
22 people
Hardy Krüger
Bill Pascoe
Known for
Barry Lyndon
Hatari!
Greg Rowe
Steve 'Snook' Pascoe
Also in
Storm Boy
The Last Wave
Carl Schultz
Sonia Borg
Matt Carroll
Liddy Clark
Ruth Pascoe
Known for
Mad Dog Morgan
Hal McElroy
Bruce Beresford
Colin Thiele
John Jarratt
Sam Snell
Known for
Wolf Creek
Australia
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Stan
Known for
Mad Max: Fury Road
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Alfred Bell
Geordie
Known for
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Le Mans
Carl Schultz Director · Sonia Borg Writer Colin Thiele Author
United States release December 1, 1978 · Produced in Australia · Production McElroy & McElroy
Production
South Australian Film Corporation
Production
McElroy & McElroy
Production
Australia
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Australia · November 15, 1978
Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia premiere
United States · December 1, 1978
Theatrical
Finland
May 19, 1982 · TV premiere
France
January 1, 1985 · Centre Georges Pompidou Pompidou Event special screening
Hungary
August 4, 1982 · TV premiere
Netherlands
November 17, 1982
Poland
January 1, 1980
Russia
August 1, 1979 · Moscow Film Festival
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