Poachers want to kill a 25-foot alligator, and it turns the tables on them, with only John Besser (Max Phipps) surviving. Ranger Steve Harris (John Jarratt), Aboriginal leader Oondabund (Burnum Burnum), and his second-in-command, Adjaral (David Gulpilil), come to save the man, who decides that he must kill the gator.

After the alligator kills a kid, Rex Garret (Ray Meagher) Steve’s boss, demands that the giant be killed. Oondabund tells Harris that it’s more than a living creature. It’s really Numunwari, who holds the souls of the dead of his village. They’re able to capture it and take it down the river, but Besser and his men show up, guns and all, killing the old man and nearly getting Harris and his girlfriend Cathy Pope (Nikki Coghill) too. Luckily, the gator snatches the man, biting off his arm and then taking his entire body below the water.

So, yeah, it’s Jaws in Australia, but what’s the big deal? Arch Nicholson also made Fortress , and writer Sonia Borg mostly wrote movies for the little ones. This would not be one of those movies.

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