When the Whales Came (1989)

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100 min - Drama - 20 October 1989 (USA)

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Paul Scofield	...	The Birdman
	David Threlfall	...	Jack Jenkins
	Helen Mirren	...	Clemmie Jenkins
	Helen Pearce	...	Gracie Jenkins
	Max Rennie	...	Daniel Pender
	Jeremy Kemp	...	Mr. Wellbeloved
	John Hallam	...	Treve Pender
	Barbara Ewing	...	Mary Pender
	Dexter Fletcher	...	Big Tim
	Nicholas Jones	...	Vicar
	Joanna Bartholemew	...	Miss Tregarthen
	Barbara Jefford	...	Auntie Mildred
	Irene Wilson	...	Molly Woodcock
	Fergus Rees	...	The Birdman as a Boy
	Kerra Spowart	...	Margaret Pender

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A pair of children befriend an accentric 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 narwhales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village. Written by Kathy Li

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