Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:National Geographic Wolper Productions
Cast & Crew
L
Lyn Murray
Original Music Composer
B
Bud Friedgen
Editor
A
Anton van Munster
Director of Photography
The Lonely Dorymen (1968)
Audience Score
Plot
For more than four centuries young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenlands banks to fish the cold waters for cod Intrepid men set off for the Banks on schooners under full sail then adrift in a flatbottomed dory they bait the hundred of hooks of their longline oblivious to fog rain and Arctic wind they labour 18 hours a day and haul up cod by the score