The Lonely Dorymen

The Lonely Dorymen

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 16, 1968

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Lonely Dorymen

Production Companies

National Geographic, Wolper Productions

Director

George Sluizer

Description

For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod. Intrepid men, set off for the Banks on schooners under full sail, then adrift in a flat-bottomed dory, they bait the hundred of hooks of their long-line, oblivious to fog, rain and Arctic wind, they labour 18 hours a day and haul up cod by the score.