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Moby Dick 
Joan Bennett and John Barrymore as a mustachioed Captain AhabDirected by Lloyd Bacon Produced by Warner Brothers Written by J. Grubb Alexander (dialogue and screenplay)
Herman Melville (novel)
Oliver H.P. Garrett (adaptation)Starring John Barrymore
Joan BennettMusic by William Axt
David MendozaCinematography Robert Kurrle Editing by Desmond O'Brien Distributed by Warner Bros. Release date(s) 20 September 1930 Running time 80 min Country USA Language English Moby Dick is a 1930 film made by Warner Bros., directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring John Barrymore and Joan Bennett.
It was an extremely free adaptation of the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, which tells of a sea captain's monomanical quest for revenge on a great white whale who has bitten off the captain's leg.
The film is a sound remake of the 1926 silent movie, The Sea Beast, starring Barrymore, which uses exactly the same plot as the 1930 version. Both films implement a prequel and sequel element to the story that did not exist in Melville's novel. For example Captain Ahab is seen as a handsome, romantic hero with a pretty girlfriend and both legs before embarking on the odyssey to kill the whale that later maimed him. Ahab survives the ordeal and returns home to the woman who loves him.
Cast
- John Barrymore as Captain Ahab Ceely
- Joan Bennett as Faith Mapple
- Lloyd Hughes as Derek Ceely
- Noble Johnson as Queequeg
- Nigel De Brulier as Elijah
- Walter Long as Mr Stubbs
- May Boley as Whale Oil Rosie
- Tom O'Brien as Starbuck
- Virginia Sale as First Old Maid
- John Ince as Reverend Mapple
External links
- Moby Dick at the TCM Movie Database
- Moby Dick at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick at AllRovi
Films directed by Lloyd Bacon 1920s The Heart of Maryland (1927) · Women They Talk About (1928) · The Singing Fool (1928) · Say It with Songs (1929)1930s She Couldn't Say No (1930) · Moby Dick (1930) · The Office Wife (1930) · Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931) · Kept Husbands (1931) · Sit Tight (1931) · Gold Dust Gertie (1931) · Honor of the Family (1931) · Manhattan Parade (1931) · 42nd Street (1933) · Picture Snatcher (1933) · Footlight Parade (1933) · Wonder Bar (1934) · Here Comes the Navy (1934) · In Caliente (1935) · Frisco Kid (1935) · Cain and Mabel (1936) · Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) · Marked Woman (1937) · Ever Since Eve (1937) · San Quentin (1937) · A Slight Case of Murder (1938) · Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938) · Wings of the Navy (1939) · The Oklahoma Kid (1939) · Espionage Agent (1939) · Invisible Stripes (1939)1940s Brother Orchid (1940) · Knute Rockne, All American (1940) · Footsteps in the Dark (1941) · Larceny, Inc. (1942) · Silver Queen (1942) · Action in the North Atlantic (1943) · The Fighting Sullivans (1944) · Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) · Wake Up and Dream (1946) · Home Sweet Homicide (1946) · I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947) · You Were Meant for Me (1948) · Mother Is a Freshman (1949) · It Happens Every Spring (1949) · Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)1950s Kill the Umpire (1950) · The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) · Call Me Mister (1951) · The Frogmen (1951) · The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) · The French Line (1953) · She Couldn't Say No (1954)Categories:- English-language films
- 1930 films
- Warner Bros. films
- Black-and-white films
- American films
- Films about whaling
- Films based on novels
- 1930s adventure films
- Films directed by Lloyd Bacon
- Films set in the 1830s
- Films set in the 1840s
- Moby-Dick
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