Moby Dick (1930)
Thar she blows!
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
- Date of release
- 1930-09-20
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Director
- Lloyd Bacon
Casting
- John Barrymore — Ahab
- Joan Bennett — Faith
- Lloyd Hughes — Derek
- Noble Johnson — Queequeg
- Nigel De Brulier — Elijah
- Walter Long — Stubbs
- May Boley — Whale Oil Rosie
- Tom O'Brien — Starbuck
- Virginia Sale — Old Maid
- John Ince — Rev. Mapple
- Jay Berger — Boy
- Ted Billings — Sailor
Interesting facts
- Based on: Moby-Dick and The Sea Beast
Moby Dick is a 1930 American pre-Code film from Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring John Barrymore, Joan Bennett and Walter Lang. The film is a sound remake of the 1926 silent movie, The Sea Beast, which also starred Barrymore. It is the first film adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick that includes a soundtrack.
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