Malachi's Cove

Malachi's Cove is a 1974 British-Canadian period drama film directed by Henry Herbert and starring Donald Pleasence, and Dai Bradley.^[1] It is based on the short story Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope and is also known as The Seaweed Children. The film was made at Bray Studios and the location filming was carried out at Trebarwith Strand but most was in Clovelly.

Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge was the film's art director and was also brought in for Herbert's next film, Emily (1976).

Plot summary[]

In North Cornwall, 1880, Mally Trenglos is tough young girl aged sixteen who collects seaweed and sells it as fertilizer for the local farmers. She lives with her grandfather Malachi in a little hut above the cove where she collects seaweed. Her parents died two years before from drowning. When Mally's mother discovered her father's body, she wanted him to be buried and stayed with his body in a dangerous storm. Mally went in the village to get help but no one came. The Gunliffes, a local farming family, answered but didn't believe her. By the time she was back at the sea, Mally's mother was dead. The film focuses on the life of Mally and her grandfather and Barty Gunliffe, a local boy (son of the family who didn't believe Mally when she claimed of her mum's drowning) who lives at a farm who keeps taking weed from their cove. Barty and Mally are enemies. But one day, Barty comes to prove to Mally that he's not afraid and gets injured. He is unconscious and Mally pulls him from the sea but he survives. However, Mrs. Gunliffe has a suspicion that Mally did it to kill him. In the end, Barty and Mally become friends and the film ends with Barty helping Mally collect the seaweed.

Cast[]

• Donald Pleasence as Malachi Trenglos
• Dai Bradley as Barty Gunliffe
• as Mally Trenglos
• Peter Vaughan as Mr. Gunliffe
• Lillias Walker as Mrs. Gunliffe
• Arthur English as Jack Combes
• David Howe as Jake Combes
• as Matt Combes
• John Barrett as Reverend Polwarth
• as Dr. Peverick
• as Mr. Eliot
• Meg Wynn Owen as Mally's mother
• as Mr. Carew
• as Mr. Carew's Clerk
• Derek Carpenter as Dr. Peverick's Assistant
• Claire Davenport as Lady in Store
• Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke as Girls in Store

References[]

External links[]

• Malachi's Cove at IMDb

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