Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive ...

This DVD has both the US cut (97 min) and the International version (99 min).

The Earthling
Directed by	Peter Collinson
Produced by	Samuel Z. Arkoff Elliot Schick John Strong
Written by	Lanny Cotler
Starring	William Holden Rick Schroder
Music by	Dick DeBenedictis Bruce Smeaton
Cinematography	Donald McAlpine
Edited by	Nicholas Beauman
Distributed by	Filmways Pictures (USA)
Release date	24 July 1980
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States Australia
Language	English
Budget	$4.5 million[1]
Box office	A$72,000 (Australia)