A story so enchanting you'll wish it were real.
6.4
100 min
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.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Paul Scofield | The Birdman | Unowned |
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David Threlfall | Jack Jenkins | Unowned |
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Helen Mirren | Clemmie Jenkins | Goutbreak |
Helen Pearce | Gracie Jenkins | Unowned | |
Max Rennie | Daniel Pender | Unowned | |
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David Suchet | Will | Unowned |
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Jeremy Kemp | Mr. Wellbeloved | Unowned |
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John Hallam | Treve Pender | Unowned |
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Barbara Ewing | Mary Pender | Unowned |
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Dexter Fletcher | Big Tim | Unowned |
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Nicholas Jones | Vicar | Unowned |
Joanna Bartholemew | Miss Tregarthen | Unowned | |
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Barbara Jefford | Auntie Mildred | Unowned |
Fergus Rees | The Birdman as a Boy | Unowned |