Moby Dick; Father Mapple delivers an ORSOMe sermon.

[markcom808]

I've heard many sermons in m y life, and this is the best I've ever heard.

[ragalindo]

if church was really this good, i would go!

[cschoon1213]

I have watched Moby Dick countless times since I was a child and this sermon moves me. Orson Welles reaches into you and grabs your mind and soul.

[rodzmen1]

This guy is based on one of my direct ancestors, Enoch Mudge.

[kongbaws]

Lets put our cards on the table of all movie sermons this is the daddy of them all, if christendom could have preachers like this their churches would be bursting at the seams, as it happens they are FINISHED and only JEHOVAHS flock are increasing lol

[WhenLilacsLast]

@duinnerfs That a man lived inside a whale(or "big fish") for about three days and came out alive, seems like fairytale-talk to me, even if it does have a metaphorical lesson to tell. Why treat us like kids with these phony stories (which many simpletons believe literally)? Maybe because conjuring overwhelming images of monsterous whales, violent oceans and a punishing God cowers people to join the religious fold...

[duinnerfs]

@WhenLilacsLast IF you wish to question/argue someone who is an expert on the Bible you might want to tune in on Family Radio Network and catch open forum with Harold Camping, he will argue his position on the Bible with fervor. . . .

[isaias1776]

@WhenLilacsLast Well, the logical persuasion in the occurrence of the event still stands, irregardless. Granted that a God does exist, even if entertaining the thought, why wouldn't this great God be able execute such an act and make such an event possible? If you were God, and a rebellious city was about to be destroyed, wouldn't you want to warn them? And if that messenger tried to avoid your awesome voice, wouldn't you want to prove your power and seriousness in the matter?

[WhenLilacsLast]

Only Orson Welles can make the funniest most outrageous part of the bible almost riveting

[mvies77]

Excellent sermon from an excellent book by an excellent genius of an actor. John Huston was brilliant in the casting of all of his movies

[krosero]

The last lyrics used in this scene are also in the book: The ribs and terrors in the whale, Arched over me a dismal gloom, While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down to doom. I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell -- Oh, I was plunging to despair. In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints -- No more the whale did me confine

[spookyben]

They say he did it in one take. They only had to re-do it for the different aspect shots.

[markcom808]

This is the finest sermon I've ever heard, Orson Wells is without peer!