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    The Whales of August

    1987 · Drama · 1h 30m

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  1. 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. The story is based on the play of the ...

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  3. Aug 19, 1987 · The Whales of August: Directed by Lindsay Anderson. With Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern. Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

    • Lindsay Anderson
    • 66
    • 2 min
  4. The Whales of August. Lillian Gish and Bette Davis. The two old sisters have been at war for years, until they have become beloved enemies. Now death is near for both of them -- not today or tomorrow or perhaps even this year, but before long. For decades, since they were children, they have returned to this old cottage on an island off the ...

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  6. Two elderly sisters, Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish), travel to their summer house in Maine. The pair couldn't be less similar: Libby is blind, cynical and mean-spirited ...

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    • Bette Davis
    • Lindsay Anderson
    • Nelson Entertainment
  7. Feb 24, 2018 · Director: Lindsay AndersonStars: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent PriceGenres: Drama

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  8. Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish) is the older of the two, the owner, and is caretaker to her blind sister Libby Strong (Bette Davis). Every August, they have watched the whales passing in the nearby waters, but the sense is that this may be their last summer together. Sarah is living life the way it's important to her, friendly, attentive, gracious ...

  9. The gentle, delicate, reflective drama The Whales of August (1987) brings two film legends together on screen for the first time. Based on the play by David Berry, who scripted the screen adaptation, it is a small, intimate story about two widowed sisters spending the summer together in the vacation home owned by Sarah (Lillian Gish) but sustained by the more affluent Libby (Bette Davis), who ...

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