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- Based on a story by Anthony Trollope, Pleasence stars as the eponymous Malachi, working his cove upon the Cornish coast, collecting seaweed with the film's young heroine Mally (Veronica Quilligan), an orphan whose tomboyish nature ensures she's routinely ridiculed by her fellow villagers, include David 'Dai' Bradley of Kes fame as Barty Gunliffe (ooh so nearly my own surname) and, in one brief scene, a sniggering Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson.
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Malachi's Cove is a 1974 British-Canadian coming-of-age period drama film directed by Henry Herbert and starring Donald Pleasence, Veronica Quilligan and Dai Bradley. It is based on the short story Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope and is also known as The Seaweed Children.
They weren’t there. The same holds true of Henry Herbert’s 1973 85-minute movie, Malachi's Cove: it has scenes which the students I studied the two with, thought must have been in Trollope’s tale. When we went back and searched, no such thing.
A moving little rural story for children, with a good young female protagonist who finds herself ostracised by her local fishing village due to a past tragedy. She lives a quiet life with her grandad at the titular Cornish cove, until precocious youth Dai Bradley (of KES fame) comes into her life.
Malachi's Cove: Directed by Henry Herbert. With Donald Pleasence, David Bradley, Veronica Quilligan, Peter Vaughan. A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer.
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Based on a story by Anthony Trollope, Pleasence stars as the eponymous Malachi, working his cove upon the Cornish coast, collecting seaweed with the film's young heroine Mally (Veronica Quilligan), an orphan whose tomboyish nature ensures she's routinely ridiculed by her fellow villagers, include David 'Dai' Bradley of Kes fame as Barty ...
- Henry Herbert
- Impact Quadrant, Penrith
Lectures & Talks. Dr Ellen Moody will be introduces Trollope’s short story Malachi’s Cove with a talk about the story and the 1973 film. The film of Malachi’s Cove was directed by Henry Herbert and starring Donald Pleasence (as Malachi) and Peter Vaughan.
Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding.
