![]() ![]() ![]() The photography and locations are just brilliant, as are the pelicans. But it does shows what telling the story truly, without trying sugar coat the darker bits can be so effective and provides lasting impressions. But Tony Allison's national park ranger portrayal is wonderful, with the challenging handling of the same issues rangers face today. I'm not sure the school scenes worked as well as they could have done either. Somehow Peter Cummins's 'Hide away Tom Kingley still didn't quite ring true, despite the obvious challenges in such a reclusive role. This is one of two friendships core to the film the other involves a pelican named Mr Percival. ![]() role in the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Storm Boy (1976). Greg Rowe as the young Mike (Storm Boy) and David Gulpilil as Fingerbone, the Aboriginal youth who befriends him is his lonely isolation were just as convincing. Mike heads towards a small fire burning on an island, where he meets Fingerbone (David Gulpilil). David Gulpilil: Australian actor (1953-), Actor, Dancer, Screenwriter. I found it remarkably fresh and almost as captivating as back then. I had studied the book at school and saw this film once in 1976 or 1977 in its first release. I recall this film very fondly from my late teenage years and was keen to revisit it, partly in preparation for a stage play adaptation we will be seeing shortly. ![]()
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