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TITLE Moby Dick (1956)

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DISABILITY Amputee

COUNTRY UK/USA

LENGTH 116

GENRE Sea drama

DIRECTOR John Huston

CAST Gregory Peck

Leo Genn

Richard Basehart

James Robertson-Justice

Orson Welles

NOTES Capt. Ahab has lost a leg to the eponymous whale.

Reasonably faithful to the original book though the novel itself

is much more than the story and its true spirit is unfilmable.

This is even truer of Melville's book than most others.

 


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