Desc: When the Whales Came: Directed by Clive Rees. With Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce. 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.