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Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called by most) is away, Sandy learns that the family home, built on state land, is being torn down to make way for a highway. In turn, Sandy would be sent to live with relatives, while Flipper would be sent to the seaquarium permanently. Not wanting to be separated from Flipper, Sandy, using his skiff, runs away with Flipper. A distraught Po returns home to look for his son. Meanwhile, the Hopewell family from Britain are vacationing in the area. Their sailboat is hijacked by three escaped convicts, who take the father, Halsey, hostage, and set the three Hopewell women - mother Julia, and teen-aged daughters Gwen and Penny - adrift, they who eventually land on the island where Sandy is hiding... Written by Huggo
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
ocean, island, beach, animals, youth, dolphins, gangsters, pirate, heroes, friendship, kidnapping, friends, captivity, interracial relations, isolation, escapades, rivalry, social differences, animal life, confined, family in danger, buddies, young heroes, daring rescue, save the day ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
bahamas, usa, florida
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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