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Blue Fin is a film of genre Drama directed by Bruce Beresford released in USA on 1 december 1978 with Hardy Krüger

Blue Fin (1978)

Blue Fin
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Released in USA 1 december 1978
Length 1h35
Directed by ,    
Genres Drama,    Adventure
Rating60% 3.0015553.0015553.0015553.0015553.001555

Blue Fin is a 1978 family movie that stars Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne. It is based on an Australian novel written by Colin Thiele and published in 1969.

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Hardy Krüger

(Bill Pascoe)Greg Rowe

(Steve 'Snook' Pascoe)Elspeth Ballantyne

(Mrs. Pascoe)John Jarratt

(Sam Snell)Hugh Keays-Byrne

(Stan)
And :
George Spartels
Terry Camilleri
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