Release Date | 1 May 1971 |
Tagline | A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. Dangers they had never known before... A people they had never seen before... |
Genre | Adventure Drama |
Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall. It centres on two white schoolchildren who are left to fend for themselves in the Australian Outback and who come across a teenage Aboriginal boy who helps them to survive.