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Moby Dick

1956Directed by John Huston1h 55m

The man – The whale – The vengeance – The mightiest adventure ever seen!

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

  • Adventure
  • Drama

Cast

  • Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab
  • Richard Basehart as Ishmael
  • Leo Genn as Starbuck
  • James Robertson Justice as Capt. Boomer
  • Harry Andrews as Stubb
  • Bernard Miles as The Manxman
  • Noel Purcell as Ship's Carpenter
  • Edric Connor as Daggoo
  • Mervyn Johns as Peleg
  • Joseph Tomelty as Peter Coffin
  • Francis de Wolff as Capt. Gardiner
  • Philip Stainton as Bildad
  • Royal Dano as Elijah
  • Seamus Kelly as Flask
  • Friedrich von Ledebur as Queequeg
  • Orson Welles as Father Mapple

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