Moby Dick
starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews
directed by: John Huston
directed by: John Huston
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PECK,GREGORY
EAN: 9780792850144
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850149
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 3235
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 1956
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The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captains self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale moby dick. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 08/20/2002 Starring: Gregory Peck Leo Genn Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Huston
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There are so many things right about this 1956 production of Moby Dick, it's a shame it is remembered for the one (debatable) thing wrong with it. As Captain Ahab, the bearded, one-legged, insanely obsessed whaler, Gregory Peck has often been called miscast. The mild, level-headed Peck had many talents, but the volcanic eruptions of Ahab seemed beyond him--even Peck himself felt he was a bad fit for the part after he finished playing it. (Pauline Kael opined that Peck looked like 'a stock-company Lincoln.') Yet Peck's quiet brooding works an intriguing variation on the fiery character. John Huston, a director with a taste for location shooting, had his hands full with the difficult open-water filming in Ireland and the Canary Islands ('The catalogue of misadventures was unbelievable,' he later wrote). Since Ahab is chasing the rare white whale, three false whales had to be constructed, two of which were lost at sea. For all the miscues, the film is amazingly controlled, and especially beautiful to look at: Huston and cinematographer Oswald Morris developed an unusual color process meant to suggest old whaling engravings. The director wrote the script with the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, an inspired choice to adapt Herman Melville's epic novel. Richard Basehart plays the narrator, Ishmael, and Orson Welles provides a wonderful single-scene role as Father Mapple, declaiming the mysteries of the sailor's life in a thundering sermon. --Robert Horton
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- Moby DickI have read Melville's novel several times, it's a favorite of mine. I saw this film 20-30 years ago, and ... Read More
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