The Day of the Dolphin 1973 G

When

6.00pm, Fri 31 Jan 2020 (104 mins)

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A

About

With 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 gripping, political sci-fi thriller about a marine biologist Jake Terrell (George C Scott) who has been training dolphins to communicate with humans. His work is dramatically undermined 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: StudioCanal Australia
  • Year: 1973
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Colour: Colour
  • Shooting Format: 35m
  • Screening Format: 35mm