Moby Dick (film)
Moby Dick was adapted to film several times (see
Moby-Dick#Selected_adaptations_and_references 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.
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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)
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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) http://www.imdb/name/nm/0822570/ and the producer
John Robert (1) (
IMDb link).
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Moby Dick, a 1998 television movie starring
Patrick Stewart as Ahab (
IMDb link)
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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.
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