Moby Dick

• Movie

  Type

• 1956

  Year

• 1h 56m

  Runtime

• ★ 6.9

  Rating

• Adventure / Drama

  Genre

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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Cast

Gregory Peck

Captain Ahab

Richard Basehart

Ishmael

Leo Genn

Starbuck

James Robertson Justice

Captain Boomer

Harry Andrews

Stubbs

Bernard Miles

The Manxman

Friedrich von Ledebur

Queequeg

Mervyn Johns

Peleg

Orson Welles

Father Mapple

John Huston

Barman