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.
Length 100 minutes
Dexter Fletcher | Barbara Jefford | John Hallam | Paul Scofield | Helen Mirren | David Suchet | Nicholas Jones | Jeremy Kemp | David Threlfall | Barbara Ewing | Helen Pearce | Max Rennie | Joanna Bartholemew | Fergus Rees