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Release Date:
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'!
(From The Movie Fanatic. 25 October 2009, 6:26 PM, PDT)
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Calls you to the sea again...
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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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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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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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Factual errors: In the scenes with the Quaker characters, despite Melville's correct use of "thee" and "thou," the two Captains especially frequently misuse "thee" as the subject, when it is only ever used as the object. For instance, the Peleg and Bildad will frequently say phrases such as "hast thee" or "art thee" when the correct use of this mode of speech calls for "hast thou" or "art thou."
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Starbuck, first mate:
It's late; you should turn in.
Captain Ahab: Sleep? That bed is a coffin, and those are winding sheets. I do not sleep, I die.
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Captain Ahab: Sleep? That bed is a coffin, and those are winding sheets. I do not sleep, I die.
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Featured in The Movie Orgy (1968)
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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.