Film

Moby Dick

Name: Moby Dick
Director: John Huston
Released: 1956
Rating: 7
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews

1956 · 116 min · ★ 7 · Dir. John Huston

From the immortal adventure classic...of whaling men, their ships, and the sea!

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad 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.