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27 June 1956 (USA)
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The most eagerly awaited motion picture of the year! more
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The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. full summary | add synopsis
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4 wins
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2 nominations
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(42 articles)
Standing Eight Count
(From t5m.com. 2 November 2009, 4:38 AM, PST)
tMF Perspectives: Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Roger Ebert and Dogville's 'Poetic effect'!
(From The Movie Fanatic. 25 October 2009, 6:26 PM, PDT)
(From t5m.com. 2 November 2009, 4:38 AM, PST)
tMF Perspectives: Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Roger Ebert and Dogville's 'Poetic effect'!
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A great Ray Bradbury screenplay!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gregory Peck | ... | Captain Ahab | |
| Richard Basehart | ... | Ishmael | |
| Leo Genn | ... | Starbuck | |
| James Robertson Justice | ... | Captain Boomer | |
| Harry Andrews | ... | Stubb | |
| Bernard Miles | ... | The Manxman | |
| Noel Purcell | ... | Ship's Carpenter | |
| Edric Connor | ... | Daggoo | |
| Mervyn Johns | ... | Peleg | |
| Joseph Tomelty | ... | Peter Coffin | |
| Francis De Wolff | ... | Captain Gardiner | |
| Philip Stainton | ... | Bildad | |
| Royal Dano | ... | 'Elijah' | |
| Seamus Kelly | ... | Flask | |
| Friedrich von Ledebur | ... | Queequeg (as Friedrich Ledebur) |
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Herman Melville's Moby Dick (USA) (complete title)
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116 min | 115 min (TCM print)
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Finland:K-12 (1986) |
Finland:K-16 (1956) |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
USA:Approved (PCA #17465) |
Australia:G |
West Germany:12
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Orson Welles' one-scene cameo helped to fund his stage production of the very same story.
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Continuity: Blood/holes in Moby Dick change when Ahab stabs.
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Featured in The Movie Orgy (1968)
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Ray Bradbury wrote an incredible screenplay for this work. Instead of trying to capture Herman Melville's actual brilliant leviathan sprawl (and who COULD succeed at this?)-- a novel jammed with fantastic,bigger than life characters, many events of great symbolic significance, not to mention barrels of whaling information-- he carves out the tale of Ahab and his obsession with the white whale. Bradbury makes great impact with Ahab's symbolic sacraments and rituals, showing a man who spits in the face of his own and his crew's doom, binding his men to his will with any means necessary. It's hard to believe, but Ray Bradbury takes this glorious wild child of a book and makes it work. The music by Phillip Sainton and the cinematography are great, too, but nothing would have saved this movie from a bad screenplay.