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.
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
