Moby Dick (film, 1956)
See also: Moby Dick (homonymy)
Moby Dick is a Film américano-English of 1956, carried out by John Huston.
Synopsis
Ishmael, young person marine who dreams of adventure, embarks on board the Pequod , a whaler. This ship is ordered by the Achab captain who is mû by a single obsession: he wants absolutely to kill Moby Dick, a tueuse whale, which made him lose its leg. Achab will involve its crew thus to follow it through all the seas, with the continuation of the monster but also of its own destiny.
Data sheet
- original Title: Moby Dick
- Realization: John Huston
- Scenario: J. Huston, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Veiller, according to the novel of Hermann Melville
- Photography: Oswald Morris, Freddie Francis
- Decoration: Ralph Brinton
- Music: Philip Stainton
- Assembly: Russell Lloyd
- Kind: film of adventures
- Lasted: 115 minutes
- Left: 1956
Distribution
- Gregory Peck : captain Achab
- Richard Basehart: Ishmael
- Leo Genn : Starbuck
- Orson Welles : Mapple
- Harry Andrews : Stubb
- James Robertson: captain Boomer
- Bernard Miles: a sailor
Around film
John Huston said, in connection with the difficulties met during turning: “The film, as the book, is thus a blasphemy, and one can admit that God defended himself by unchaining against us these enormous hurricanes and these waves. ”
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