Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 3
It may favor spectacle in place of the deeper themes in Herman Melville's novel, but John Huston's Moby Dick still makes for a grand movie adventure.
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
It may favor spectacle in place of the deeper themes in Herman Melville's novel, but John Huston's Moby Dick still makes for a grand movie adventure.
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Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. "Call me Ishmael" declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly intimidated by the sermon delivered by Father Mapple (Orson Welles in a brilliant one-take cameo), who warns that those who challenge the sea are in danger of losing their souls, Ishmael nonetheless signs
Jun 27, 1956 Wide
Jun 19, 2001
MGM
All Critics (19) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (3) | DVD (4)
One could have plenty of quarrels with this as an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel, but it's still one of the better John Huston films of the 50s.
Moby Dick is certainly the most unusual picture of the year and may well be the best.
Top CriticMoby Dick is interesting more often than exciting, faithful to the time and text more than great theatrical entertainment.
A rolling and thundering color film that is herewith devoutly recommended as one of the great motion pictures of our times.
John Huston gives a passionate and faithful rendering of Herman Melville's novel in Moby Dick, aided by a stellar cast.
John Huston's long-cherished adaptation of Herman Melville's novel has some wonderful scenes but must be counted as a noble failure.
The film takes flight as a grand chase movie, and leaves its ambition in its wake.
Even if it is Melville-lite, Moby Dick is a rousing, beautifully conceived old-school production.
Huston uses his great filmmaking skills to keep things mostly on course.
It is often staggeringly good.
It's a considerable achievement, filmed against monstrous physical odds.
An interesting interpretation, with Peck as a wounded, pitiful, but dark Ahab.
John Huston em mais um de seus grandes momentos.
Huston's film has stellar action sequences and some fine work done in supporting roles, which helps overcome Peck's wooden work as Ahab.
A fair stab at adapting the classic novel by science fiction novelist Ray Bradbury, this is still the definitive screen version. Gregory Peck plays nicely against cast as the archetypal obsessive and has plenty of nice period detail. It's also interesting to see where pretty much every sea bound adventure gets it's
May 16, 2007
Super Reviewer
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