Moby Dick (film)
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Moby Dick was adapted to film several times (see Moby-Dick in popular culture). The most famous version is the 1956 film directed by John Huston, based on the novel by Herman Melville.
- A 1926 silent movie, The Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore as a heroic Ahab with a fiancée and an evil brother, loosely based on the novel (IMDb link). Remade as Moby Dick in 1930 (IMDb link), a version in which Ahab kills the whale and returns home to the woman he loves.
- Moby Dick Rehearsed, a 1955 television "play within a play" directed by Orson Welles (IMDb link)
- A 1956 film directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck, with screenplay by Ray Bradbury (see Moby Dick (1956 film))
- Moby Dick, featuring Jack Aranson as Captain Ahab, was filmed in 1978 and released in November 2005 on DVD. The director was Paul Stanley (1) [[1]] and the producer John Robert (1) (IMDb link).
- Moby Dick, a 1998 television movie starring Patrick Stewart as Ahab (IMDb link)
- Capitaine Achab a 2004 French movie directed by Philippe Ramos, with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart (IMDb link)
- A Japanese animated sequel to Moby-Dick, called Legend of Moby-Dick, was produced in 1997.
[edit] External links
- Moby Dick (1930) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1956) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1978) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1999) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955) (TV) at the Internet Movie Database
- Thar She Blows: The Making of 'Moby Dick' (1998) at the Internet Movie Database
- Animated Epics: Moby Dick Moby Dick (2000) at the Internet Movie Database
- History's Mysteries: The Essex - The True Story of Moby Dick (2001) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick: The True Story (2002) at the Internet Movie Database
