When the Whales Came
- Drama
3/28/1989
100
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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Cast
- Paul ScofieldThe Birdman
- David ThrelfallJack Jenkins
- Helen MirrenClemmie Jenkins
- Helen PearceGracie Jenkins
- Max RennieDaniel Pender
- David SuchetWill
- Jeremy KempMr. Wellbeloved
- John HallamTreve Pender
- Barbara EwingMary Pender
- Dexter FletcherBig Tim
- Nicholas JonesVicar
- Joanna BartholemewMiss Tregarthen
- Barbara JeffordAuntie Mildred
- Fergus ReesThe Birdman as a Boy
