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Released
1980 · FILM

The Earthling

Two alone in the wilderness. One learned to survive, the other to love.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
97 min
AdventureDrama

Synopsis

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Nicholas BeaumanShot by Donald McalpineScored by Dick Debenedictis

Also known as

  • Am Ende des Talesde
  • L'Enfant de la villefr
  • Il bambino e il grande cacciatoreit

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