Release Date

28 Mar, 1989

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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Actors

Paul Scofield

David Threlfall

Helen Mirren

Helen Pearce

Max Rennie

David Suchet

Jeremy Kemp

John Hallam

Barbara Ewing

Dexter Fletcher

Nicholas Jones

Joanna Bartholemew

Barbara Jefford

Fergus Rees

Crew

Clive Rees

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo

Simon Channing Williams

Christopher Gunning

Robert Paynter

Lindy Hemming