The Water Babies

The Water Babies

Movie |

Fish | Polar Bear

  • Duration: 1h 32min
  • Award(s): Best Cinematography 1981 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: Riverdance: The Animated Adventure, Trolls
  • Story:
    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 an evil shark and an eel.
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STORY

Story
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 an evil shark and an eel.

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The film was made and released about 115 years after its source novel of the same name by Charles Kingsley had been first published in its entirety in 1863.

Filmed in 1976 but not released until 1978.

Charles Kingsley wrote "The Water Babies" book for his son, it being a children's fairytale novel, in the vein of Charles Dickens and a part satire supporting Charles Darwin's "The Origin of the Species".

Samantha Gates, the girl who plays Elly, is the nude girl in the artwork for Led Zeppelin's album 'Houses of the Holy'. She is also the model in Hajime Sawatari's book "Alice", from 1973.

The full title of the movie's source book was "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby".

Popular Dialogues

"Tom: [running back and forth on the roof] Me brush! Where's me brush! I'll get clouted if I can't find me brush!"

"Tom: [walks over to Mr. Grimes who is drunk on the donkey] Where's this then Mr. Grimes? Mr. Grimes: [slurred] "Where's this then?" China! Where does tha think? Yorkshire! Can't tha see it's Yorkshire? Tom: I know it's Yorkshire, Mr. Grimes! Mr. Grimes: Well then. [donkey brays] Tom: I never seen it clean before. Mr. Grimes: We're in the country! Tom: Oh, is that what they call it? Lovely, innit Mr.Grimes? [looks around]"