When the Whales Came
1989
A story so enchanting you'll wish it were real.
- Clive Rees
- 1h 40m
- March 28, 1989 · United Kingdom
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 28, 1989
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- ITV Central,American Continental Corp.,Golden Swan
- Cast
- Paul Scofield,David Threlfall,Helen Mirren,Helen Pearce,Max Rennie,David Suchet,Jeremy Kemp,John Hallam,Barbara Ewing,Dexter Fletcherand 4 more
- Director
- Clive Rees
- Writer
- Michael Morpurgo
- Producer
- Simon Channing Williams
- Cinematography
- Robert Paynter
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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