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.

• American Continental Corp.
• Golden Swan
• Paul Scofield
• David Threlfall
• Helen Mirren
• Helen Pearce
• Max Rennie
• David Suchet
• Jeremy Kemp
• John Hallam