| Blue Fin | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Carl Schultz |
| Written by | Sonia Borg based on = novel by Colin Thiele |
| Produced by | Hal McElroy |
| Starring | Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe, Elspeth Ballantyne |
Production companies | South Australian Film Corporation McElroy and McElroy |
| Distributed by | Pacific International Enterprises |
Release date | November 1978 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | AU $750,000[1] |
| Box office | AU $703,000 (Australia)[2] |
Blue Fin is a 1978 family movie that stars Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne.[3] It is based on an Australian novel written by Colin Thiele and published in 1969.
Plot
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.
Cast
- Hardy Krüger ... Bill Pascoe
- Greg Rowe ... Steve "Snook" Pascoe
- Liddy Clark ... Ruth Pascoe
- Elspeth Ballantyne ... Mrs. Pascow
Production
The film is an unofficial follow up to Storm Boy with the same writer and star, also adapted from a Colin Thiele novel. The 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 near Streaky Bay in mid 1978. It was a difficult production and 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.[5]
DVD release
A DVD was released on 1 January 2003.
See also
References
- ^ Greg Kerr, "Blue Fin", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p15
- ^ Australian Films at the Box Office - Report to Film Victoria accessed 5 October 2012
- ^ Blue Fin (1978)
- ^ a b David Stratton, The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival, Angus & Robertson, 1980 p271-272
- ^ Peter Beilby & Rod Bishop, "Carl Schultz", Cinema Papers, Jan-Feb 1979 p242
External links
- Blue Fin at IMDb
- Blue Fin at the National Film and Sound Archive
- Blue Film at Australian Film Commission
- Blue Fin at The New York Times
- Pacific International Enterprises