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Moby Dick

on BBC Two England

Period adventure
I starring
Gregory Peck
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.
Director John Huston (1956)
FILM REVIEWS pages 45-52

Contributors

Unknown:
Gregory Peck
Director:
John Huston
Captain Ahab:
Gregory Peck
Ishmael:
Richard Basehart
Starbuck:
Leo Genn
Father Mapple:
Orson Welles
Queequeg:
Friedrich Ledebur
Stubb:
Harry Andrews
LEO:
Bernard Miles
Peleg:
Mervyn Johns

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