Moby Dick (1956)
Country: GB
Technical: col 116m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Friedrich Ledebur
Synopsis:
A young man joins a whaling ship's crew, and lives to regret it when their captain follows his obsessive quest to track down and kill the white whale that cost him his leg.
Review:
The Hustonian theme of frustrated search here reaches its apotheosis in an adaptation of Melville's American Gothic text. There is perhaps a little too much 'avasting', and it wears its importance heavily, but this nightmare parable has a real flair for lurid drama, a rip-roaring finish, and is great to look out with its washed-out Technicolor cinematography.
Country: GB
Technical: col 116m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Friedrich Ledebur
Synopsis:
A young man joins a whaling ship's crew, and lives to regret it when their captain follows his obsessive quest to track down and kill the white whale that cost him his leg.
Review:
The Hustonian theme of frustrated search here reaches its apotheosis in an adaptation of Melville's American Gothic text. There is perhaps a little too much 'avasting', and it wears its importance heavily, but this nightmare parable has a real flair for lurid drama, a rip-roaring finish, and is great to look out with its washed-out Technicolor cinematography.
Country: GB
Technical: col 116m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Friedrich Ledebur
Synopsis:
A young man joins a whaling ship's crew, and lives to regret it when their captain follows his obsessive quest to track down and kill the white whale that cost him his leg.
Review:
The Hustonian theme of frustrated search here reaches its apotheosis in an adaptation of Melville's American Gothic text. There is perhaps a little too much 'avasting', and it wears its importance heavily, but this nightmare parable has a real flair for lurid drama, a rip-roaring finish, and is great to look out with its washed-out Technicolor cinematography.