'Everyone in Port Lincoln thinks Snook Pascoe is a loser. People joke about his clumsiness; his teacher ridicules him and even his father, skipper of the tuna boat Blue Fin, is convinced that Snook will never amount to anything. After all, tuna fishing is a hard life for ‘real men’.
'When Snook is allowed, for once, to sail on Blue Fin he faces a terrifying disaster. A waterspout engulfs the ship, the deck is swept clean, the radio and rudder are wrecked, the engine is disabled, the crew is lost overboard and Snook’s father lies unconscious down below. Snook is on his own, far out to sea…' (Publication summary)
Blue Fin
( dir. Carl Schultz
)
South Australia
Australia
:
South Australian Film Corporation
McElroy and McElroy
,
1978
Z918980
1978
single work
film/TV
Set in the South Australian town of Streaky Bay, Blue Fin is the story of a young boy's relationship with his father, owner of the fishing trawler Blue Fin, and the chance the boy has to prove himself.
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:
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,
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extract
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:
L. and S. Publishing
,
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children's fiction
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:
L. and S. Publishing
,
1979
Z836137
1979
extract
children's fiction
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