directed by: John Huston, year: 1956
actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Orson Welles, Leo Genn

John Huston's Moby Dick adapts Herman Melville's nautical epic into a towering 1950s film. Gregory Peck stars as the obsessed Captain Ahab, whose relentless pursuit of the great white whale imperils his crew aboard the whaler Pequod. Orson Welles lends mythic authority as Father Mapple, with Richard Basehart as Ishmael and Leo Genn as Boomer, guiding themes of fate, vengeance, and the human cost of zeal as storms, ritual confrontations, and the ultimate showdown with Moby Dick unfold.

Mutiny, Adventure, Drama, Seafaring, Literary Adaptation, Whaling, Epic