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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce, Max Rennie, David Suchet
Crew: Clive Rees (Director), Michael Morpurgo (Novel), Michael Morpurgo (Screenplay), Simon Channing Williams (Producer), Christopher Gunning (Music), Robert Paynter (Director of Photography)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: American Continental Corp., Golden Swan, ITV Central
Runtime: 100 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 28, 1989
IMDb: 4.607