Walkabout

Walkabout

95 mins | Drama, Adventure | July 1, 1971

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

Walkabout

95 mins | Drama, Adventure | July 1, 1971

Walkabout
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers 20th Century Fox, Si Litvinoff Film Production, Max L. Raab Productions
Original title Walkabout
Directors Annabel Davis-Goff, Kevin Kavanagh, Nicolas Roeg
Writers James Vance Marshall, Edward Bond, Nicolas Roeg

Cast

Jenny Agutter

as Girl

Luc Roeg

as White Boy

David Gulpilil

as Black Boy

John Meillon

as Man

Peter Carver

as No Hoper

John Illingsworth

as Young Man

Hilary Bamberger

as Woman

Barry Donnelly

as Australian Scientist

Noeline Brown

as German Scientist

Carlo Manchini

as Italian Scientist