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Overview

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Director:
John Huston
Writers:
Herman Melville (novel)
Ray Bradbury (writer) ...
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Release Date:
27 June 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama more
Tagline:
The most eagerly awaited motion picture of the year! more
Plot:
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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Awards:
4 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Calls you to the sea again... more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Herman Melville's Moby Dick (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
116 min | 115 min (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

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Trivia:
Orson Welles' one-scene cameo helped to fund his stage production of the very same story. more
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Anachronisms: Jet contrails visible in the background when Starbuck plans to shoot Ahab. more
Quotes:
Captain Ahab: By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike. more

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17 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
Calls you to the sea again..., 13 November 2002
Author: MISSMARCH from Canada

This is a film that becomes part of you. I used to watch it over and over again on TV when it was shown during my childhood in the 1960's, and I never tire of watching it. And whenever I find myself living somewhere away from the ocean, the longing is intense to find water again. "Call me Ishmael".

The screenplay was written by Ray Bradbury, and it was his first. In his lectures and interviews, Bradbury always seems to tell the story of how John Huston contacted him out of the blue for this assignment. Evidently, he flew Bradbury and his wife to Ireland, where the science fiction writer was holed up in a hotel for a few weeks, in a wonderful agony of creation.

Bradbury has always been enamoured with classic novels. His book "Fahrenheit 451" told us how great literature somehow becomes subversive, in a controlled society. Under fascism, individuals are not encouraged to understand what it is to be truly human. Life becomes flat, and it is a deliberate process.

Before I had a VCR, I taped this movie on an audio cassette. It was an amazing experience to see it unfold in my mind's eye.

Bradbury put his whole heart into this screenplay, and the result can never be matched.

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