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    Blue Fin (1978)

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    Accident prone son ‘Snook’ Pascoe (Greg Rowe) is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his gruff father Bill (Hardy Kruger).

    But when tragedy strikes their tuna fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the ocean off South Australia, the boy is called on to become a man in a rite of passage at sea to save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.

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    Snook somehow pumps the water out of the boat, stops ammonia leaking from the freezer, makes himself a dish of cold tinned peas topped up with marmalade, finds the first aid box and gets a Band-Aid for his father (who needs rather more, having had his leg broken in the near shipwreck), manages to start the engines and, with a makeshift tiller, heads for home.

    Snook and his dad arrive back to find the inhabitants of Streaky Bay massed on the wharf cheering them in. And not a word about the rest of the six-man crew lost at sea.

    Bill Pascoe
    Hardy Krüger
    Steve ‘Snook’ Pascoe
    Greg Rowe
    Ruth Pascoe
    Liddy Clark
    Sam Snell
    John Jarratt
    Stan
    Hugh Keays-Byrne
    Geordie
    Alfred Bell
    Herbie
    Ralph Cotterill
    Con
    George Spartels
    Jock
    Jock Owen
    Mrs Pascoe
    Elspeth Ballantyne
    Ockie
    John Godden
    Snitch
    John Thompson
    Pam
    Kelly Aitken
    Bellamy
    Graham Rouse
    Andy Nelson
    Wayne Rodda
    Lady Henty
    Anne Milliner

    Director
    Carl Schultz

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