@ScootyPuffSr7 It can't be denied Jews have monopolized our media, and it can't be denied that our media is filled with filth designed to lead our people astray. Remove the Jews and this problem (as well as many others) would vanish.
John Huston asked Ray Bradbury to do the screenplay, Bradbury said "to tell you the truth I've never been able to read the damn book". Huston said well read what you can.
@Igleh12 It was, in 1989 with Patrick Stewart playing Ahab and Gregory Peck playing a cameo and the preacher. This one is the best but the 1989 one is pretty good too. The most recent one, Moby Dick 2010 is absolute garbage.
there will be a new mini series with William Hurt as Ahab this year (see trailer on my yt-account). I'm quite optimistic that it will be better than the one with Stewart.
Great movie. Modern movies are filled with filth, it is no coincidence that Hollywood, and all Western media for that matter, has been monopolized by Jews.
my name is ishmal.the first words in the book.moby dick was a poorly selling book untile herman melvile died.there is a wishbone book called moby dog. booth books are great.
@jimmybob137 No, Jaws was just inspired from the mortal fear that people have of shark attacks. It's more likely to get killed by a Great White then a Sperm Whale. But Jaws doesn't have shit on Moby Dick. xD
started researching into leviathan, moby dick and things like that, which led me to atlantis and stuff like that, i think it's about time i read moby dick, plus i'd understand the mastodon album too lol
I have not read the book as yet, but this movie is pretty good. However, the Ahab vs. Moby Dick vs. Starbuck vs. the-entire-remainder-of-the-lot-of-them conflict in this story is a total zero when judged against the relationships of Capt. Larsen vs. Humphrey Van Weyden in "The Sea Wolf," as well as Capt. Bligh vs. Fletcher Christian from "Mutiny on the Bounty."
(continued) For me, human vs. human conflict is much more fascinating than the need for vengeance against a whale. Perhaps the Moby Dick book will contain more of that, and delve into Ahab's dealing with his own personal demons.
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This film is a piece of shit and all the acting was wooden, especially by the draft dodging coward Gregory Fencepost Peck. They should have cast someone the right age as Ahab like Fredric March.
I don't know what you mean? This film might have worked with a better actor in the lead role. Richard basehart was far too old to play the youngster Ishmael.
ever in every relationship and a excellent cineastic realization of Melvilles novelle. If one person has only a little bit movie-knowledge and a developed sense for really good movie - art, this fact must be selfunderstanding for this. This movie is formal and substantial very famous and will it be also, if some incompe- tent guys this still not have clear. Great art resist and survive stupid comments.
I think I agree with you, but I can't really tell. You should learn the basics of english before embarking on a complicated rant. Awesome movie. Epic.
Did you give me a "thumbs down" for expressing an afterthought opinion? Draft dodger? Lung cancer? You're just a really bad person aren't you? Alot of unprocessed emotions yeah? Weird to have hatred for someone you've never met, sad to have hatred for anyone at all.
goofy. Essentially the same movie with Queequg played by an eskimo; further the relationship between Q and Ishmael was teased by characters in the film as homosexual. And everyone looked too "post-apocolyptic" with clothes a mess and impliments that looked middle ages.
thanks heaps for that torrent link, took me ages to get it going but was well worth it. great movie. thanks also to the guy who emailed me as well. unfortunately you had to be in america for that one, but thanks all the same.
I never read this book, but lately I heard that it's really good. I was trying to buy one the other day but there were many editions, I didn't know what to buy..any advise please???
Moby Dick is based on a true story, at the beginning of the 19th century, the whaleship Essex was attacked by a whale, the first and only time a whale has ever attacked a ship. Any edition by Melville is good but make sure it is unedited.
This, for me, is the definitive Moby Dick: a movie every bit as classic, romantic and scary as the book on which it was based, but clearer cut and easier to follow. Still one of the best films ever made, it cast its spell on me as a boy, and has never let go.
I saw this illustration on this one edition of a Moby Dick novel, and the cover showed all the dead crew members bodies and bits of the ship lying draped on top of Moby Dick as the whale was floating on the surface of the water.
captain ahab was awesome! i luv him soooo much more in this one than in the 1998 Moby Dick. He seems more real here. he rocks! im gonna watch this movie tonight!
" And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemely sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor". No greater book was ever written.
It wasn't based on true events. Sure whales were dangerous, and hurt people, so it might have borrowed that, but I doubt all these characters existed in these forms outside the writer's mind.
Believe me, I love the John Huston / Gregory Peck 'Moby Dick' but in my dreams I see Klaus Kinski as Ahab directed by Werner Herzog. If they hadn't killed each other in the process I think that would have been a hell of a movie!
Gregory Peck perfectly captured the white hot anger seething under Ahab's veneer of self control, the kind of control ship owners expected of sea captains. Director John Huston processed the film so the colors resembled old whaling prints. A well made & evocative classic.
man that book almost killed me,the flulk,s of the whale,the fossel whale,the spout of the whale,the tail of the whale.any person who managed to get through the whole book,deserves a fucking knighthood it is 10% genius and 90% shite,full stop.
Funny shit, son! I fell asleep every other page - if it weren't for the short chapters and the hellish nitemares possessing me to the finish... I'd still be wondering how the rope snatched Ahab's ivory peg.
Kirk, with passion, yes - but Peck had the presence. Kirk would have looked in the smoking bloodshot eye of Leviathan and then would transform into turnip turd.. Ahab was a beast, not a demon. Kirk should have played Fedallah!
I can't agree with whoever liked Patrick Stewart better as Ahab. In fact, I don't agree with Gregory Peck himself, who thought he was too young and not up to the part. I can't imagine anybody else in the part. Patrick Stewart just plain lacked the craziness.
That said, there are good things to be said for both versions. A more likely Queequeg in the second, for one. Richard Basehart, an otherwise good actor, did not shine as Ishmael in the first version, either.
I think Crowe would probbaly make a better "Dick" since most people seem to think that's what he is anyway. Honestly, he is a damn good actor though.
The one guy that could have easily made a good Ahab (with help on the accent opf course) would have been Johnny Cash! One might say that Ahab was the original "Man in Black" of the literary world.
The Patrick Stewart version was the best. Most true to the novel. Gregory Peck's version of Ahab is just to do the crazy eyes once in a while. So hack.
Me to!I did watch it also when I was 4 years old!And on one channel I watched part 1,one day ago!I can't wait for Part 2!!!This such an awesome movie!
Awesome, powerful stuff: men giving their souls over to vengeance... a timeless look into the heart of darkness. It's great to see this clip here. Thanks!
saw dis movie in my American Literature class.. wasnt so bad,but uh.was it just me or did Ishmael kept gettin gayer as the movie went along.. with his shirt off and tight pants with skarf and all lol.
Never read the book, but I have the dvd at home. Love the movie! Gregory Peck plays his role as Captain Ahab very good :) If he wasn't so obsessed by Moby Dick, I think he would've been a great captain to work for.
mobys dick!! lol
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MOBY'S DICK lmao!!
iDontGiveAFuck4000 1 month ago
this movie filmed in the Canary Islands, in La playa de Las Canteras....
jusesessions 2 months ago
At 18.th of October 1851. Herman MELLVILLE s book MOBYDICK edited for the first time - before 160 years !!
arenadri7 3 months ago in playlist Movie Trailers
Why did people name a whale penis penis?
that's what it means ._.
Ferno642 3 months ago
thumbs up if you read the book
Jon58004 4 months ago
This was the ONLY good version of the film. All the remakes suck.
eimb1999 5 months ago
Eh, people from America or somewhere just have to use there weak spears, killing the wonders god has created...
weechify 5 months ago
@weechify America wasn't the only country who whaled, some Countries like Japan still do it today.
Dglaproductions 3 months ago
thank god it wasnt called the black whale, then we wouldv had some problems....
HelterSkelterSOR 8 months ago
Cryptozoology novel about two boys who find something strange on the beach one night see video book trailer
dltanner99 10 months ago
He so destroyed that ship..
12CanadianChick 10 months ago
Peter Jackson should do an epic remake of Moby Dick, similar to what he did with King Kong, that would be the shizzz nizzzzz
ILuvTheSeaAndEmery 11 months ago
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww i feel really bad for poor moby:(
beatlesrockandroll 11 months ago
船長が 死んでも 手招いています 波に 洗われながら
seven4g63 1 year ago
Films were a lot better before Hollywood (as well as our tv. and newspapers) was monopolized by Jews. Nowadays they are filled with filth.
stepheng1483 1 year ago
@stepheng1483 We gentiles are perfectly capable of being shallow and immoral on our own.
ScootyPuffSr7 11 months ago
@ScootyPuffSr7 It can't be denied Jews have monopolized our media, and it can't be denied that our media is filled with filth designed to lead our people astray. Remove the Jews and this problem (as well as many others) would vanish.
stepheng1483 11 months ago
@stepheng1483 If Jews as a group are so monolithic why do half of Jews in the United States marry non-Jews?
ScootyPuffSr7 11 months ago
Moby Dick - Livyatan melvillei
nerdofdeath 1 year ago
poor Moby.. :'( he got stabbed by harpoon.
gothicpsychotic 1 year ago
What is big and rose ? Moby´s dick
Pobedim 1 year ago
I like Moby Dick because it has the word "Moby" in it!...lol
MrMatt0303 1 year ago
John Huston asked Ray Bradbury to do the screenplay, Bradbury said "to tell you the truth I've never been able to read the damn book". Huston said well read what you can.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
in soviet russia, ishmael calls you!
RRRVVVLLLVVVRRR 1 year ago
I thought Ahab was supposed to be unbelievably ugly.
LightStijn 1 year ago
ahab is mean lincoln. moby dick is tough
MrAirbuster57 1 year ago
i hope this movie will be remaked!!! :D:D:D:D:D
Igleh12 1 year ago
@Igleh12 It was, in 1989 with Patrick Stewart playing Ahab and Gregory Peck playing a cameo and the preacher. This one is the best but the 1989 one is pretty good too. The most recent one, Moby Dick 2010 is absolute garbage.
theswatter 1 year ago
@theswatter Why? Whats wrong with the new one?
Trucker297 1 year ago
@theswatter
there will be a new mini series with William Hurt as Ahab this year (see trailer on my yt-account). I'm quite optimistic that it will be better than the one with Stewart.
Fichtenbrenner 1 year ago
Gregory Peck woulda made a good Wolverine
patrickdanielgervais 1 year ago
Great movie. Modern movies are filled with filth, it is no coincidence that Hollywood, and all Western media for that matter, has been monopolized by Jews.
stepheng1483 1 year ago
SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER!!
AveEnd 1 year ago 3
my name is ishmal.the first words in the book.moby dick was a poorly selling book untile herman melvile died.there is a wishbone book called moby dog. booth books are great.
queen123452 1 year ago
In soviet russia, Ships rape sexually named whales!
tossenbossen 1 year ago
@tossenbossen In soviet russia,moby dick hunts you :P
MboredNbad 1 year ago
2:09 hey look it's brent hinds of mastodon
..so that's where they got the idea..
zsimmitus 1 year ago
jaws was a moby dick remake.
jimmybob137 1 year ago
@jimmybob137
not really ...
xDIStructorx 1 year ago
@jimmybob137 No, Jaws was just inspired from the mortal fear that people have of shark attacks. It's more likely to get killed by a Great White then a Sperm Whale. But Jaws doesn't have shit on Moby Dick. xD
Nightmarerulz6 1 year ago
started researching into leviathan, moby dick and things like that, which led me to atlantis and stuff like that, i think it's about time i read moby dick, plus i'd understand the mastodon album too lol
cRazyBassBiTch 1 year ago
The ole Nantucket Sleighride
kwt800 1 year ago
heis abig dick
aliz123ify 1 year ago
These old movies are great, there's no swear words, constant sexual references, and general filth and depravity. I love their innocence.
teilhaus 1 year ago
John bonham solo ^^
waitening 1 year ago
more like ''Moby's dick''
PaperMan431 1 year ago
why do they name it moby dick anywayz? they dunno whats dick back then?
benjamin656564 1 year ago
@benjamin656564
It didnt mean that back then.
NikiCookie 1 year ago
@benjamin656564 RIchard!
Dinoman217 1 year ago
I have not read the book as yet, but this movie is pretty good. However, the Ahab vs. Moby Dick vs. Starbuck vs. the-entire-remainder-of-the-lot-of-them conflict in this story is a total zero when judged against the relationships of Capt. Larsen vs. Humphrey Van Weyden in "The Sea Wolf," as well as Capt. Bligh vs. Fletcher Christian from "Mutiny on the Bounty."
rem2267 1 year ago
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aliz123ify 1 year ago
(continued) For me, human vs. human conflict is much more fascinating than the need for vengeance against a whale. Perhaps the Moby Dick book will contain more of that, and delve into Ahab's dealing with his own personal demons.
rem2267 1 year ago
they shud make a new version of moby dick
emoaznchick95 1 year ago
@emoaznchick95 Right Letters to Joe Johnson or M. Night Shamylan.
Dinoman217 1 year ago
This movie needs a remake, finally some real seamonster action!
zenwinex 1 year ago
Buenísima!!!!
grobisalbo 1 year ago
R.I.P. Gregory Peck!
Dinoman217 1 year ago 5
A very slow and boring film with the talentless Peck hilariously miscast as Ahab.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready You philistine, you wouldn't know acting talent if it reared up and bit you. This film is a classic and all the acting brilliant.
roosterwriter 1 year ago
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This film is a piece of shit and all the acting was wooden, especially by the draft dodging coward Gregory Fencepost Peck. They should have cast someone the right age as Ahab like Fredric March.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready At 16 what is your point of reference?
Grunt6869 1 year ago
I don't know what you mean? This film might have worked with a better actor in the lead role. Richard basehart was far too old to play the youngster Ishmael.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
This is a all time classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrDeCorey 1 year ago 3
Fucking Ahab......
MobyDlck 1 year ago
spoiler
mittROMNEY666 1 year ago
movie was tight.
sointex 1 year ago
Isn't this novel the best American novel in the world?
Gustava10 1 year ago 5
Kortestyle
SCBB07 1 year ago
Atticus Finch was seduced by the darkside.
Blanckmeister 2 years ago 19
2:14 or 16 when she comes
tyleriggytdog 2 years ago
tha's big as a moutain
tyleriggytdog 2 years ago 2
It was too slow, the whale was obviously just a model, and Peck was both too young and much too nice to be believable as Ahab.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Hajrá Magyarország! Hajrá Fidesz!
Orange2010ful 2 years ago
@Orange2010ful -- Well! Can't argue with that!!!
rem2267 1 year ago
Gregory Peck kinda loook like that guy from X-man wolfverine origin. :)
monyta542 2 years ago
@monyta542 Tis true
coramunroe 2 years ago
The last comment is total stupid and absolut
wrong. This movie is one of the best movies
ever in every relationship and a excellent cineastic realization of Melvilles novelle. If one person has only a little bit movie-knowledge and a developed sense for really good movie - art, this fact must be selfunderstanding for this. This movie is formal and substantial very famous and will it be also, if some incompe- tent guys this still not have clear. Great art resist and survive stupid comments.
EnniodiComo 2 years ago 2
I think I agree with you, but I can't really tell. You should learn the basics of english before embarking on a complicated rant. Awesome movie. Epic.
FunkMasterGodOfRock2 2 years ago
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The film was fucking shit. Pity the talentless draft dodger Peck didn't die of LUNG CANCER.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Did you give me a "thumbs down" for expressing an afterthought opinion? Draft dodger? Lung cancer? You're just a really bad person aren't you? Alot of unprocessed emotions yeah? Weird to have hatred for someone you've never met, sad to have hatred for anyone at all.
FunkMasterGodOfRock2 2 years ago 2
classic!!!
AvEryBadApPLe 2 years ago
crazy basterd
oliebbommel59 2 years ago
a remake will be great,with better special effects
kondurperusix 2 years ago
Whats wrong with this one? Gregory Peck, Orson Welles ain't good enough?
lemonite1 2 years ago
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The talentless block of wood Peck was fucking awful in this slow and boring film.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
long book! haha queequeg looks funny
klarkstyle 2 years ago
Ahab rules!
jailbreak74andmore 2 years ago
THe movie I saw as most (20+ and no video, only on TV)
Ruffin3113 2 years ago
queequeg... what a champ. such a geat novel.
xess23 2 years ago 14
lol, love ahab
ahab22 2 years ago
good god the captain is on Prozac(registered mark here)
muiere2 2 years ago 2
A great actor Gregory Peck.
...Played the part with his soul.
oldedrum 2 years ago 2
There she blooows ... one of the best movies I've ever seen, one of the most difficult books I've ever read. Awesome.
ZoltepZaan 2 years ago 3
BEST
MOVIE
EVER
GreatAkuHa 2 years ago 3
I liked it then and I love it now. Yeah, get em Moby! I'm rooting for the whale. They shoulda kept they ass on land.
antiann52 2 years ago
Aaaah, spoilers. lawl. I haven't finished the book yet.;;; Is the movie (or the remake) humorous at all? :B
Because the book is damned hilarious.
GuacamoleKun 2 years ago
queequeg is so brutal in this version!
grindtildeath 2 years ago
Does anyone know about this made but in a remake in 2006? I am looking for it.
XxLocoxx19Xx 2 years ago
@XxLocoxx19Xx
There was a re-make made in 1998, not 2006. But it was shit.
Dessan01 2 years ago
one of my top 3 movies....
trufiend138 2 years ago 4
lol that one actors last name is Justice. that would be awesome.
yoursoulismine1 3 years ago
Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear?
kmatson07 3 years ago
they could make such a good remake of this nowadays
amptyvision 3 years ago
They did make a great remake about 10 years ago starring Patrick Stewart as Ahab. Excellent flick.
Holdenon3 3 years ago 3
but it was so good as this or???
aatef1981 2 years ago
goofy. Essentially the same movie with Queequg played by an eskimo; further the relationship between Q and Ishmael was teased by characters in the film as homosexual. And everyone looked too "post-apocolyptic" with clothes a mess and impliments that looked middle ages.
diddymuck 2 years ago
Hmmmmm. Didn't know that Abe Lincoln and Capt. Ahab were related...
DarkHeartedMusician 3 years ago
they where.... i think
Lonkeronmetsastaja 3 years ago
Captain Ahab is EVIL LINCOLN
yoursoulismine1 3 years ago 4
thanks heaps for that torrent link, took me ages to get it going but was well worth it. great movie. thanks also to the guy who emailed me as well. unfortunately you had to be in america for that one, but thanks all the same.
crocodilevvv 3 years ago
Some say he's half man half whale...some say its more a 70-30 split...either way he's one fishy barstard...
trickhoseroff 3 years ago
just finished the book for a paper i'm writing, probably the best book i've ever read, or at least my favorite
lpstudio91 3 years ago
I just finish reading this bock and must say. That it is a werry good book! The movie i havent seen. Perheps i should! Anyway im babling.
uBo112 3 years ago
could somebody please please please post this movie.
crocodilevvv 3 years ago 6
added torrent link to info box
ravendusk 3 years ago
@crocodilevvv
Go 2 Movie2k.com
IM SERIOUS
But u can only watch it on MEGA VIDEO!!
MEGA VIDEO !
If stops half way and says U hae watch 54 mins already But just wait like 50 mins and go 2 the spot !
Oh and it doesn`t always work !
HOPE THIS HELPS ! :D
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@crocodilevvv you can watch it free on hulu.
wadyano 1 year ago
I never read this book, but lately I heard that it's really good. I was trying to buy one the other day but there were many editions, I didn't know what to buy..any advise please???
klodya3 3 years ago
Moby Dick is based on a true story, at the beginning of the 19th century, the whaleship Essex was attacked by a whale, the first and only time a whale has ever attacked a ship. Any edition by Melville is good but make sure it is unedited.
skylur44 3 years ago
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Believe me the book suxxxxxxxxxxxx
Opt1on 3 years ago
This, for me, is the definitive Moby Dick: a movie every bit as classic, romantic and scary as the book on which it was based, but clearer cut and easier to follow. Still one of the best films ever made, it cast its spell on me as a boy, and has never let go.
videowilliams 3 years ago 3
Oh god..Gregory Peck's voice! XD So hot!
Azsharis 3 years ago
I saw this illustration on this one edition of a Moby Dick novel, and the cover showed all the dead crew members bodies and bits of the ship lying draped on top of Moby Dick as the whale was floating on the surface of the water.
degree7 3 years ago
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
clcrocks 3 years ago
Yeah it is awsome, but I saw it in a bookstore about five years ago. I was wondering if anyone could find it for me.
degree7 3 years ago
captain ahab was awesome! i luv him soooo much more in this one than in the 1998 Moby Dick. He seems more real here. he rocks! im gonna watch this movie tonight!
clcrocks 3 years ago
Richard Basehart is great.
MauricioCasteglione 3 years ago 4
omg moby dick iz my most favorite movie ever! i <3 captain ahab we r gettin married 2morro!
clcrocks 3 years ago
"Drink and swear man, God hunt us all if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!"
mindelo23 3 years ago 15
" And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemely sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor". No greater book was ever written.
bushna2007 3 years ago 357
Pecks greatest role is truly memorable ,similar to Newtons,Long John Silver.Both fantastic Character performances
jeanniedee 3 years ago 4
Twas the whale that sank our economy ill wager.Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
dan23951 3 years ago
moby dick =D
AelitaSinger 3 years ago
historia en los mares de chile
geonu2008 3 years ago
Do english speaking people say captain Ahab? In the french version of the book,it's captain Achab,dunno why..
musicsavage 3 years ago
It's Ahab,Aay-hab, pronounced and named after the evil king from the Bible.
tigereye1964 3 years ago
FYI this was actually based on true events.
a sperm whale completely destroyed a big ship
tslbuttons 3 years ago
It wasn't based on true events. Sure whales were dangerous, and hurt people, so it might have borrowed that, but I doubt all these characters existed in these forms outside the writer's mind.
tigereye1964 3 years ago
no of course with the characters and names but yes this did happen a sperm whale destroyed a big ship in the 1800
tslbuttons 3 years ago 2
why is he looks like Abraham Lincoln?
ThomasRedfield 3 years ago
"Whiskers" without a moustache was a popular style for mature men in the mid Nineteenth century.
PlanBModels 3 years ago
Ahab was a Quaker I think, they dressed in black, like the oatmeal man.
tigereye1964 3 years ago
great
jirachi8282 4 years ago
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TIM BURTON FOR MOBY DICK!!! we are waiting for The Movie...
fasterbit06 4 years ago
that would be terrible
acer4667 3 years ago 10
You gotta be kidding. No way the guy who ruined Planet of the Apes could do justice to Moby Dick.
40AcreMule 3 years ago 2
Believe me, I love the John Huston / Gregory Peck 'Moby Dick' but in my dreams I see Klaus Kinski as Ahab directed by Werner Herzog. If they hadn't killed each other in the process I think that would have been a hell of a movie!
enochsneed 4 years ago 3
Hell yes! No-one but no-one matches the burning intensity in Kinski's eyes.
oldnavyrum 4 years ago
Gregory Peck perfectly captured the white hot anger seething under Ahab's veneer of self control, the kind of control ship owners expected of sea captains. Director John Huston processed the film so the colors resembled old whaling prints. A well made & evocative classic.
PlanBModels 4 years ago 3
man that book almost killed me,the flulk,s of the whale,the fossel whale,the spout of the whale,the tail of the whale.any person who managed to get through the whole book,deserves a fucking knighthood it is 10% genius and 90% shite,full stop.
greyhowl 4 years ago
Funny shit, son! I fell asleep every other page - if it weren't for the short chapters and the hellish nitemares possessing me to the finish... I'd still be wondering how the rope snatched Ahab's ivory peg.
beischquee 3 years ago
the book is sheer poetry...kirk douglas would have made a better ahab, though I love peck...superb atticus finch...
orson welle's cameo was brilliant...baseharts voice as narator was excellent...
remake was a disappointment....overacted...musta been made by liberals...
runnerrk 4 years ago
Kirk, with passion, yes - but Peck had the presence. Kirk would have looked in the smoking bloodshot eye of Leviathan and then would transform into turnip turd.. Ahab was a beast, not a demon. Kirk should have played Fedallah!
beischquee 3 years ago 4
"STEWART SUX PECK 4 LYF"
That made me laugh so hard! Yes, Peck indeed.
spearwielder 4 years ago
Amen.
LuxMol 4 years ago
I can't agree with whoever liked Patrick Stewart better as Ahab. In fact, I don't agree with Gregory Peck himself, who thought he was too young and not up to the part. I can't imagine anybody else in the part. Patrick Stewart just plain lacked the craziness.
That said, there are good things to be said for both versions. A more likely Queequeg in the second, for one. Richard Basehart, an otherwise good actor, did not shine as Ishmael in the first version, either.
jessyquedens 4 years ago
I think Crowe would probbaly make a better "Dick" since most people seem to think that's what he is anyway. Honestly, he is a damn good actor though.
The one guy that could have easily made a good Ahab (with help on the accent opf course) would have been Johnny Cash! One might say that Ahab was the original "Man in Black" of the literary world.
anthony1962 4 years ago
Love this movie, one of the best adaptations of classic literature ever.
If they remade this today, Russell Crowe would make a hell of an Ahab.
Mality 4 years ago
This movie is really cool. Thanks Moby Dick , ok. sayonara my friends.
javoman13 4 years ago
Wow, the first time I saw this movie, I was captivated by Ahab!! Now I can't wait to read the book!
xarlotdoll 4 years ago
The Patrick Stewart version was the best. Most true to the novel. Gregory Peck's version of Ahab is just to do the crazy eyes once in a while. So hack.
piratebri 4 years ago
anyone knows if this movie is on the internet?
comeonanythingrandom 4 years ago
Yeah, if you have a Netflix subscription (not the cheapest one, though), you can see it free on Watch Instantly.
cynthiahern 3 years ago
Didn't care for the Patrick Stewart version at all, for some reason, and I like Patrick Stewart. TV movie sleeping pill.
The Gregory Peck version was far more dramatic, had better script, I even liked the music by Phillip Sainton.
axecalibore 4 years ago
I like this movie, and of course the novel from Hermann Melville.
Taadee 4 years ago
I was awestruck when I learned decades later, that the screenplay was written by one of my all-time favorite authors Ray Bradbury!
jmedia1 4 years ago
There should be a remake of this movie, it would be great, a movie for theaters, not a tv movie
kondurperu2 4 years ago
agree, i REALLY hope that some day there will be a all new Moby Dick Movie
comeonanythingrandom 4 years ago
Me to!I did watch it also when I was 4 years old!And on one channel I watched part 1,one day ago!I can't wait for Part 2!!!This such an awesome movie!
MutatedIguana 4 years ago
I must echo rixenbixen. The Patrick Stewart version is tops!
Any whaling story is a good story, though....
Holdenon3 4 years ago
Awesome, powerful stuff: men giving their souls over to vengeance... a timeless look into the heart of darkness. It's great to see this clip here. Thanks!
AlarusOne 4 years ago
Great film! Peck was a perfect choice! Did you know Leo Genn was a Lt. Col. who prosecuted at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial?
BigLisaFan 4 years ago
Liked the new one with Patrick Stewart better.:P
rixenbixen 4 years ago
I watched that one to!
MutatedIguana 4 years ago
My favourite part was when the whale got angry. Raymond Massey would have been a much better Captain Ahab though.
skoblin 4 years ago
saw dis movie in my American Literature class.. wasnt so bad,but uh.was it just me or did Ishmael kept gettin gayer as the movie went along.. with his shirt off and tight pants with skarf and all lol.
CubanJC 4 years ago
Whale meat again, sometime soon, dont know when.
SmiertSpionem 4 years ago
Never read the book, but I have the dvd at home. Love the movie! Gregory Peck plays his role as Captain Ahab very good :) If he wasn't so obsessed by Moby Dick, I think he would've been a great captain to work for.
cstoao 5 years ago
I didn't like the book at all! Ishmael kept trailing off about different types of whales and what they looked like. The plot wasn't bad though.
Tibby2 5 years ago