Bradbury, who once said he "threw him overboard," gave Ahab (Gregory Peck) his better lines). Huston adopted, leaving it up to the New Bedford Port Society to construct, in 1961, after tourists came calling and wanted to see the thing from the book and the movie.ĭevotees of Melville will quickly wonder where the mystic Parsee, Fedallah, disappeared to (Mr. Melville, of course, made up the bowsprit-shaped pulpit in the Seamen's Bethel that Mr.
Was a Hustonian flight of imagination that Melville never wrote. Joseph Thomas of Spinner Publications noted that Ahab lashed to Moby Dick & In the movie, New Bedford harbor sits on a vast seascape, and the wives of the crew look suspiciously like the Irish extras that they were. Those familiar with the New Bedford landscape might wonder where Ishmael (Richard Basehart) found that lovely waterfall in the opening scene. Quibblers could start with the title, which drops the hyphen of the original (although Melville himself dropped the hyphen in the text of the book). Those looking for literary accuracy in the Huston film will have plenty to carp about, although the scenes depicting the job of whaling are strikingly realistic. Bradbury, who in an epiphany declared "I am Melville," and who, after months of labor, wrapped up the last 50 pages of the script in the space of a few hours. Bradbury contemplated suicide and at one point confronted him at dinner in a manner worthy of Vice President Dick Cheney.īut by that time, Mr.
Huston put them all through such torment that, according to Mr. Bradbury and his family to Dublin and London for the project (they went by boat), Mr. Huston's cruel practical jokes and taunts.Īfter hauling Mr.
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