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title: "Moby Dick"
brand: "gregory peckorson wellesjohn huston"
price: "$1860"
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# Moby Dick

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Obsession with battle between man and nature
  

*by P***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 17, 2023*

I used to watch this movie all the time on TV as a kid. It’s a great adaptation of the book with direction by John Huston and Ray Bradbury co-writing the script. It’s about obsessing over the battle between man and nature.Moby Dick starts like an adventure tale with Richard Basehart coming into town and signing up with a whaling vessel. Then Gregory Peck shows up as Captain Ahab and the film takes on a theatrical feel as Peck goes on a long monologue about the evils of the white whale Moby Dick. Then he acts like a minister as he gives a sermon to inspire his men to hunt down this great beast and bring it to him. When the whales show up it transforms again into action sequences mixing shots of the actors in boats, miniatures and real shots of whaling. It’s what makes this film so unique.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    John Huston's Moby Dick
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2013*

Written in 1851,  Herman Melville's difficult, tormented novel has inspired a long stream of American creative effort. Among the most recent of these efforts is the opera "Moby-Dick" by Jake Heggie with libretto by Gene Scheer that I saw and reviewed here on Amazon in an outstanding DVD by the San Francisco Opera. The new opera prompted me to visit an earlier famous adaptation of "Moby-Dick" : director John Huston's film version of 1956. Amazon's "instant video" rental feature made it easy to get to know the film. I also used George Cotkin's study of "Moby-Dick" in American culture, "Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick"  (2012) to supplement watching the movie.John Huston (1906 -- 1987) was a flamboyant American film director and screenwriter who directed many classic films beginning with 1941's "The Maltese Falcon". Although he had difficulty reading the book, Huston had long wanted to make a movie of "Moby-Dick", and he enlisted the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury to write the script. Bradbury too had experienced difficulty reading Melville's novel, but he took to the project enthusiastically.  He and Huston had a stormy relationship with each other, but both immersed themselves in the book and the project. As George Cotkin tells it in "Dive Deeper", Bradbury struggled with the script but ultimately had an epiphany, proclaiming "I am Herman Melville" when he realized that Ahab in the book  "wants the mens' souls"  as well as revenge against the white whale.  For Huston's part, Cotkin describes him as "devoted to making his film and having it touched with blasphemy, veracity, and cinematic splendor". Huston revised Bradbury's script.  According to Cotkin, " Huston had wanted Bradbury's soul.  He managed to get a good film script that he reworked until it fit his own vision of a man bent on diving deeper, confronting a God who had questions to answer."Huston's film captures the "blasphemy" he sought as his Ahab rails against the suffering and lost dreams of human life and against the God he holds responsible. Bradbury's script too shows a charismatic Ahab who has the power to convince his crew of the importance of his vendetta against the whale and to persuade them to follow him. Bradbury's script has a great deal of the majestic, raving quality of Melville.  Although the film departs from the novel in several important ways, partly to take account of the different nature of the mediums, it captures a great deal of the spirit and themes of the original. The movie also succeeds in Huston's goal of providing "cinematic splendor" to the telling of the tale. The film was an expensive spectacular, with unique and effective coloration, scenes of the ocean and the Pequod, and a lush score. The most lavish and famous scene in the movie was the climactic portrayal of the white whale and of Ahab's and his crews doomed pursuit towards the end, as the whale carries Ahab off on his back, with the ocean broiling and the birds flying ominously overhead.There are issues with the acting and casting of the film. Gregory Peck does not have the full visceral passion to capture Ahab. He appears in this film looking somewhat like a well-dressed Abraham Lincoln and his performance is restrained.  Late in life, Peck portrayed Father Mapple in another screen version of "Moby-Dick" and he frequently spoke with dissatisfaction about his performance of Ahab in the earlier film.  Still, many viewers have got to know Ahab through Peck, and his effort deserves respect.As for the rest of the cast,  full-voiced Richard Basehart is a capable Ishmael and the German actor of aristocratic background, Friedrich von Ledebur, overcomes the odd casting to be effective as Queequeg.  Leo Genn captures the common sense of Starbuck, but the acting gem of this film is Orson Welles in his performance of Father Mapple, whose sermon sets the stage both for the novel and for the movie. According to Cotkin, Welles took to the role of Father Mapple immediately and extemporized on the sermon during the filming.  "That's very good, very good indeed", Huston commented. "But now try it as written in the script."Huston's film, like Melville's novel, failed commercially upon its initial release, but its reputation has continued to grow. Over the years, many people have come to the story and its characters through the portrayals in this movie. Huston's film with its flaws thus has taken on something of a life of its own.Huston's film is worth seeing and enjoying in it own right for what it is. I enjoyed watching the movie as a sort of commentary on the book.  It is one of a long series of illustrious examples of how Americans over the years have approached and thought about Melville's literary masterwork.Robin Friedman

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    All time great!
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2023*

Sixty-odd years later it couldn't be made better!  Black and white picture suits the mood, the wind and rain, and the felt obligation of the captain - played convincingly by Peck.

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