Moby Dick

7

United States Of America

Adventure Drama

116 min

1956

Mervyn Johns Carol White John Huston Orson Welles Friedrich von Ledebur Royal Dano Philip Stainton Francis de Wolff Joseph Tomelty Gregory Peck Edric Connor Noel Purcell Bernard Miles Harry Andrews James Robertson Justice Leo Genn Richard Basehart

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.