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When the Whales Came

6.4 100 mins Drama   1989
American Continental Corp.   Golden Swan   ITV Central  
Director(s): Clive Rees

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.

Casts of When the Whales Came

Paul Scofield

as The Birdman

David Threlfall

as Jack Jenkins

Helen Mirren

as Clemmie Jenkins

Helen Pearce

as Gracie Jenkins

Max Rennie

as Daniel Pender

David Suchet

as Will

Jeremy Kemp

as Mr. Wellbeloved

John Hallam

as Treve Pender

Barbara Ewing

as Mary Pender

Dexter Fletcher

as Big Tim

Nicholas Jones

as Vicar

Joanna Bartholemew

as Miss Tregarthen

Barbara Jefford

as Auntie Mildred

Fergus Rees

as The Birdman as a Boy

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