Synopsis
A 10-year-old boy (Greg Rowe), living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters. With the help of an Aboriginal man, Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), the boy and the bird become inseparable, until the outside world encroaches.
-- synopsis from Australian Screen Online
Adaptation of: Storm Boy (Thiele, Colin, 1963)
Colin Thiele's 1963 children's novel Storm Boy was adapted for the screen by Henri Safran in 1976. The novelist was reportedly displeased that a scene featuring hunters running amok in dune buggies was added to augment the dramatic tension but in many respects the film is very faithful to the source text.
