The Day of the Dolphin 1973 G

When

6.00pm, Fri 31 Jan 2020 (104 mins)

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A

About

The Day of the Dolphin will screen from an imported 35mm print.

Possessor of potentially the most intriguing poster tagline of the 1970s - "Unwittingly, he trained a dolphin to kill the President of the United States" - Mike Nichols' The Day of the Dolphin is a fascinating, politically-driven sci-fi thriller about a marine biologist Jake Terrell (George C Scott) who has been training dolphins to communicate with humans. His work, however, is dramatically subverted when a sinister organisation abduct some of his subjects and put them to nefarious use.

Production Credits

  • Director: Mike Nichols
  • Script: Buck Henry
  • Based on: the novel by Robert Merle
  • Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
  • Editor: Sam o’Steen
  • Production Company: Embassy Pictures
  • Print Source: University of North carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem
  • Rights: Studio Canal Australia
  • Screening Format: 35mm
  • Year: 1973
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Sound: Stereo
  • Colour: colour