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Moby Dick

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab
and Richard Basehart as Ishmael.

In 1840 a young sailor signs up on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, has a single obsession - to wreak vengeance on the monstrous white whale that took off his leg...
Peck plays Ahab in this epic adventure based on the novel by Herman Melville - one of the masterpieces of American literature.

(Films: page 17)
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Ray Bradbury
Screenplay/Producer/Director:
John Huston
Captain Ahab:
Gregory Peck
Ishmael:
Richard Basehart
Starbuck:
Leo Genn
Fr Mapple:
Orson Welles
Queequeg:
Friedrich Ledebur
Stubb:
Harry Andrews
Manxman:
Bernard Miles
Peleg:
Mervyn Johns
Carpenter:
Noel Purcell
Captain Boomer:
James Robertson Justice
Source: Radio Times

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