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When the Whales Came

A story so enchanting you'll wish it were real.

28 Mar 1989
  • United Kingdom
100 mins
6.344
16 votes
  • Drama
articleOverview personCast
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

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