AdventureDrama

Walkabout

- A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.

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 Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

Release Date : 1971-07-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Si Litvinoff Film ProductionMax L. Raab Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Girl

Original Name : Jenny Agutter

Gender : Female

Character Name : White Boy

Original Name : Luc Roeg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Black Boy

Original Name : David Gulpilil

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man

Original Name : John Meillon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man

Original Name : Robert McDarra

Gender : Male

Character Name : No Hoper

Original Name : Peter Carver

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Man

Original Name : John Illingsworth

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman

Original Name : Hilary Bamberger

Gender : Female

Character Name : Australian Scientist

Original Name : Barry Donnelly

Gender : Male

Character Name : German Scientist

Original Name : Noeline Brown

Gender : Female

Character Name : Italian Scientist

Original Name : Carlo Manchini

Gender : Male

Reviews

Wuchak

@Wuchak

2021-10-25

_**Arty flick about survival in the Outback and coming-of-age**_ A teenage girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother get stuck in the Outback, but receive assistance by an aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) on a ‘walkabout,’ a rite of passage into manhood. Directed by Nicolas Roeg, “Walkabout” (1971) is an arty cult flick that plays like a Terrence Malick film and no doubt influenced his style (since it came out two years before Malick’s feature film debut with “Badlands”). Agutter was only 16 during shooting while her character is 14, according to Roeg. The themes about the beauty of nature vs. man-made desecration and the clash of the primitive with the ‘cultured’ & the problems of communication thereof were probably fresh at the time but are obvious and old hat now. "Dances With Wolves" tackled the same issues almost 20 years later. Still, this is an artistic piece with loads of awesome nature footage, plus it’s interesting to see Agutter so young in the bush. It’s a must if you appreciate movies like “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975) or anything by Terrence Malick. David Gulpilil went on to appear in such notable flicks as “Crocodile Dundee” (1986) and “Australia” (2008). The film runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot in Sydney, Finders mountain range, the red desert surrounding Alice Springs and (supposedly) areas never traveled by Caucasians up to that point. GRADE: B