When The Whales Came
– A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their islan..
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.
20 Oct 1989
English
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Clive Rees
Michael Morpurgo (novel), Michael Morpurgo (screenplay)
Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce
A pair of children befriend an accentric 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 narwhales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
3 wins.
20th Century Fox