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Blue Fin
1978 film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blue Fin is a 1978 Australian family film directed by Carl Schultz and starring Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne.[3] It is based on a 1969 Australian novel written by Colin Thiele.
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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.
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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
- George Spartels as Con
- John Frawley
- Terry Camilleri as Truckie
Production
The film is an unofficial follow up to Storm Boy (1976) with the same writer and star, also adapted from a Colin Thiele novel. The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) did not want to use Henri Safran as director, though, so employed another director from the ABC, Carl Schultz.[4]
The film was shot in Streaky Bay in mid 1978.[5]
Reshoots
During post production editor Rod Adamson claimed the film would not cut together. Five weeks after filming had completed, Schultz had to leave the film to take up a directing job at the ABC. Accordingly, Matt Carroll of the SAFC called in Bruce Beresford, who was under contract to them, to re-shoot some sequences. Some of these had to be done using a body double for Hardy Kruger since he had returned to Europe.[4] Schultz was supportive of Beresford stepping in but was unhappy with the fact he supervised the final re-cut.[6]
Proposed Remake
In 2017 it was announced the movie would be remade.[7]
DVD release
A DVD was released on 1 January 2003.
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