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This is why I found myself deeply affected by a small, somewhat forgotten film starring two legends of the film industry, dealing with their own mortality. The Whales of August, based on a play by David Berry and directed by Lindsay Anderson, is not a great film in and of itself.
The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish (in her final film appearance) as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy.
For decades, since they were children, they have returned to this old cottage on an island off the coast of Maine, where in August it has been their custom to watch at twilight as the whales pass on their journeys to wherever it is that whales go.
The names of Lillian Gish, Bette Davis and Vincent Price will never be forgotten by film lovers. The Whales of August, on the other hand, surely will be.
Watch The Whales of August with a subscription on Prime Video. Two elderly sisters, Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish), travel to their summer house in Maine.
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- Bette Davis
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A movie you'll never forget. Screen legends Bette Davis and Lillian Gish united their iconic talents in director Lindsay Anderson's intensely emotional 1987 drama, THE WHALES OF AUGUST,...
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Oct 17, 2019 · In a film about advancing old age, the majority of the cast members lived long lives—Gish died at 99, six years after Whales; Sothern at 92; Carey, of all those John Ford Westerns, at 91; Price at 82; and Davis at 81.
