The Water Babies
The Water Babies is a 1978 live action-animated family film directed by Lionel Jeffries and starring James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson, Tommy Pender, and Samantha Gates. It is very loosely based on the book The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley.
Plot
Tom is a 12 year old orphan living in York in the mid-19th century. He is taken under the wing of Grimes, a roguish chimney sweep, as he is small enough to climb inside the chimneys. One day, they leave town and go to Harthover Hall, a huge country house set in vast grounds. Grimes rides a donkey - Tom and Grimes' assistant Masterman walk alongside.
More details
| author | Lionel Jeffries |
|---|---|
| director | Lionel Jeffries |
| editor | Peter Weatherley |
| genre | action animation fantasy |
| keywords | 19th century adopt antarctica cave in chimney sweep country house dead man end england france french lobster neptune pass penguin polar bear polar bears poseidon scotland scottish sea king seahorse self sacrifice self-sacrificing shark speak swordfish walrus york young girl |
| musicBy | Phil Coulter |
| producer | Peter Shaw |
| productionCompany | Ariadne Films Studio Miniatur Filmowych |
| publisher | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
| theme | animated |