the water babies

Director: lionel jeffries

Actor: james mason,bernard cribbins,billie whitelaw,joan greenwood

Data Published: Fri Jun 23 1978

Genres: Animation,Adventure,Family,Fantasy,Musical

Key Words: underwater scene,shark,eel,ocean,part animation

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078477/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Babies_(film)

Description: The Water Babies is a movie starring James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, and Billie Whitelaw. This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by...

Plot: When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it with his dog Toby, and they end up jumping into a violent river. There they encounter a civilisation of anthropomorphic underwater creatures. Before he can return to the surface and clear his name, however, Tom must help rescue his new friends, the Water Babies, from their nemesis. Featured voices include those of James Mason, Bernard Cribbins and Tommy Pender. The film starts and ends similarly to the book, though in the book Tom actually dies, and is only allowed above the sea on a temporary basis. The movie also adds a whole new subplot, involving a Killer Shark, an Electric Eel and the mythical Kraken, who decides whether or not Tom can return to the surface. There are also several invented characters, whom Tom befriends on his quest: Jock, a Scottish lobster, Terence, an effeminate starstruck seahorse, and Claude, a foppish French swordfish.