Little Boy Lost (1978)

Directed by

Terry Bourke

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy goes missing in the Australian bush. His father works with police and an Aboriginal tracker to find him while the community waits for news.

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What happens

Little Boy Lost is a 1978 Australian drama film starring Nathan Dawes as Stephen Walls, John Hargreaves as Jacko Walls, Lorna Lesley as Dorrie Walls, Tony Barry as Constable O'Dea and Steve Dodd as William Stanley, the Aboriginal tracker. The spelling of Steven Walls’s name was changed to “Stephen” in the movie. Johnny Ashcroft and Gay Kayler performed the vocals on the movie sound track, also a specially recorded version of the Little Boy Lost hit song, which is played at the end of the film. Scenes were shot on location in Guyra, Tubbamurra and Narrabeen, New South Wales, Australia. The World Premiere was held in Armidale, New South Wales. Johnny Ashcroft and Gay Kayler sang the Little Boy Lost song from the movie live on stage to Nathan Dawes and his stand-in, Toshi Bourke, son of Terry Bourke (movie director). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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