MOVIE · 1956
Moby Dick
ActionAdventureDrama116 min
Richard Basehart’s Ishmael signs onto the Pequod in 1841, expecting a whaling voyage out of New Bedford. Instead he finds Captain Ahab, with Gregory Peck as the one-legged commander who has turned the ship toward a single target: Moby Dick, the white whale that took his leg. As Ahab pushes the crew deeper into his private hunt for revenge, Leo Genn’s Starbuck stands among the few officers willing to question him. John Huston’s adaptation of Melville keeps close to the shipboard world of hard labor, rough seas, and a captain whose authority is tied to obsession.
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