Moby Dick
Summary:
Director Franc Roddam and co-scripter Anton Diether adapted Herman Melville's 1851 classic for this four-hour TV miniseries sea adventure. Ishmael (Henry Thomas) ignores the warnings of dockside prophet Elijah (Bruce Spence) and joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod. Ismael befriends Polynesian harpooner Queequeg (Maori actor Piripi Waretini), hears a sermon by Fath... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Patrick Stewart - (Captain Ahab)
Henry Thomas - (Ishmael)
Ted Levine
Gregory Peck - (Father Mapple)
Piripi Waretini - (Queequeg)
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Review:
Captain Ahab roams the seas again in this 1998 TV miniseries. Like the 1956 film version, it leaves the main theme of the novel (Ahab's relentless pursuit of the Great Unknown, symbolized by the whale) essentially intact. Patrick Stewart plays a wildly emotional Ahab in this newest version. From start to finish, Stewart's Ahab ful... Continue >>
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