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 narwhales who sometimes come. Meanwhile, World War I is making life hard in the village.
1989
HD
100min
United Kingdom
English
Clive Rees
Helen Mirren
David Threlfall
Helen Pearce
Paul Scofield
David Suchet
John Hallam
Barbara Ewing
Jeremy Kemp
Dexter Fletcher
beach
1910s
island
based on childrens book
whale
cornwall england
hermit
puffin
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