Moby Dick (Original title)
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 28 January 1957 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: John Huston
Synopsis: Story of a captain who lives only to kill the greatest whale of all, the white Moby Dick.
Genre: Period drama
Subject: Whaling
Releases
Date: 30 June 1956not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Length: 10346 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 28 January 1957 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: John Huston
Synopsis: Story of a captain who lives only to kill the greatest whale of all, the white Moby Dick.
Genre: Period drama
Subject: Whaling
Releases
Date: 30 June 1956not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Length: 10346 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©/Production Company: Moulin Productions, Production Company: Warner Bros., Produced by: John Huston, Associate Producer: Lehman Katz, [Associate Producer]: Vaughan N. Dean, [Production Manager]: Cecil F. Ford, Assistant Director: Jack Martin, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Kevin McClory, [Continuity]: Angela Allen, [Casting Director]: Robert Lennard, Screenplay: Ray Bradbury, Screenplay: John Huston, Based on the novel 'Moby-Dick' by: Herman Melville, Director of Photography: Oswald Morris, 2nd Unit Photographer: Freddie Francis, Colour Style Creation: Oswald Morris, John Huston, Camera Operator: Arthur Ibbetson, [Focus Puller]: Gerry Turpin, [Clapper Loader]: Marc Hyams, [Special Effects]: Gus Lohman, Editor: Russell Lloyd, Art Director: Ralph Brinton, Assistant Art Director: Stephen Grimes, [Assistant Art Director]: Stephen Drake, Geoffrey Drake, Costume Designer: Elizabeth Haffenden, Make-up Created by: Charles Parker, [Chief Hairdresser]: Hilda Fox, Music: Philip Stainton, [Music] Conductor: Louis Levy, Recording Supervisor: Harold King, Sound Recording: John Mitchell, [Sound Recording]: Len Shilton, [Sound Effects]: Leslie Hodgson, Technical Adviser on Whaling: Robert Clarke, [Transport Manager]: Eddie Frewin, [Unit Publicist]: Alan Thomson, Studio: Associated British Elstree Studios
Cast
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Gregory Peck (Captain Ahab), Richard Basehart (Ishmael), Leo Genn (Starbuck), James Robertson Justice (Captain Boomer), Harry Andrews (Stubb), Bernard Miles (Manxman), Noel Purcell (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 Ledebur (Queequeg), Orson Welles (Father Mapple), Tamba Alleney ([Pip]), Ted Howard ([Perth, the blacksmith]), Tom Clegg ([Tashtego]), Iris Tree ([lady with bibles]), Carol White, Delysia Vennell, Frazer Hines, Amanda Coxell, Gareth Tandy, Peter Godsell ([uncredited])