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Bookmark this pageTarka the Otter (1978)
Director: David Cobham
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This episodic adaptation of Henry Williamson's novel seems determined to include stock shots of all British flora and fauna, whether relevant or not. It's a tale of love, tears, adventure, and close shaves, in which the animal stars act well; but only at the end, in the final confrontation between Tarka and his nemesis, Deadlock the otter-hound, does the film really jell. The rest suffers, as does the book, from a mixture of feyness and anthropomorphism, perhaps endearing in the 1920s but emerging as weakness in this more cynical age.Author: SP
Cast & crew
Director: David Cobham
Producer: David Cobham
Cast: Peter Bennett, Edward Underdown, Brenda Cavendish, John Leeson full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 91 mins
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