Harwich International Shanty Festival Screening: Moby Dick (1956)

Moby Dick (1956) at the Electric Palace

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Film Details

116 MIN

Rating
PG

Director
John Huston

Cast
Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Orson Welles, Bernard Miles, Mervyn Johns, Noel Purcell, Frederick Ledebur, Edric Connor, Seamus Kelly, Philip Stainton, Joseph Tomelty, Royal Dano, Francis De Wolff, Ted Howard, Tom Clegg, Tamba Allenby, Joan Plowright, Iris Tree

Synopsis

Moby Dick (1956) Screening as part of the Harwich International Shanty Festival

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.

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