When the Whales Came 1989

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.

Cast

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