When the Whales Came
1989 · Clive Rees · 100 min
A story so enchanting you'll wish it were real.
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.
Paul ScofieldThe Birdman
David ThrelfallJack Jenkins
Helen MirrenClemmie JenkinsHelen PearceGracie JenkinsMax RennieDaniel Pender
David SuchetWill
Jeremy KempMr. Wellbeloved
John HallamTreve Pender
Barbara EwingMary Pender
Dexter FletcherBig Tim
Nicholas JonesVicarJoanna BartholemewMiss Tregarthen
Barbara JeffordAuntie MildredFergus ReesThe Birdman as a Boy
