Sandy Ricks is sent by his mother 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, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime..
Ricou Browning (story), Jack Cowden (story), Arthur Weiss (earlier screenplay), Alan Shapiro (screenplay)