When the Whales Came

Clive Rees

1989•100 min.•

United Kingdom

★6.4(15)

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Drama

Cast

Paul Scofield
The Birdman
David Threlfall
Jack Jenkins
Helen Mirren
Clemmie Jenkins
HP
Helen Pearce
Gracie Jenkins
MR
Max Rennie
Daniel Pender
David Suchet
Will
Jeremy Kemp
Mr. Wellbeloved
John Hallam
Treve Pender
Barbara Ewing
Mary Pender
Dexter Fletcher
Big Tim
Nicholas Jones
Vicar
JB
Joanna Bartholemew
Miss Tregarthen
Barbara Jefford
Auntie Mildred
FR
Fergus Rees
The Birdman as a Boy

Crew

CR
Clive Rees
Directing
MM
Michael Morpurgo
Writing
MM
Michael Morpurgo
Writing
SCW
Simon Channing Williams
Production
Christopher Gunning
Sound
RP
Robert Paynter
Camera
Lindy Hemming
Costume & Make-Up

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