The Water Babies (film)
| The Water Babies | |
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| Directed by | Lionel Jeffries |
| Screenplay by | Michael Robson Lionel Jeffries (additional material) |
| Based on | The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley |
| Produced by | Peter Shaw executive Ben Arbeid |
| Starring | James Mason Billie Whitelaw Bernard Cribbins Joan Greenwood |
| Cinematography | Ted Scaife |
| Edited by | Peter Weatherley |
| Music by | Phil Coulter |
Production companies | Ariadne Films (UK) Studio Miniatur Filmowych (Poland) |
| Distributed by | Pethurst International Ltd. (UK) The Samuel Goldwyn Company (USA) |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Countries | Poland United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £1 million |
| Box office | £61,282 (UK) |
The Water Babies is a 1978 live action-animated family film directed by Lionel Jeffries and starring James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, Joan Greenwood, David Tomlinson, Tommy Pender, and Samantha Gates. It is very loosely based on the book The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley.