Film adaptations of Moby-Dick
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Moby Dick, Herman Melville's novel, has been adapted to film several times. The most famous version is the 1956 version directed by John Huston.
- The Sea Beast, a 1926 silent movie starring John Barrymore as a heroic Ahab with a fiancée and an evil brother, loosely based on the novel.
- Remade as Moby Dick (1930 film), a version in which Ahab kills the whale and returns home to the woman he loves.
- Moby Dick Rehearsed, a 1955 television "play within a play" directed by Orson Welles
- Moby Dick (1956 film), directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck, from a screenplay by Ray Bradbury
- Moby Dick (1978 film), featuring Jack Aranson as Captain Ahab, released in November 2005 on DVD
- Moby Dick (TV movie), a 1998 television movie starring Patrick Stewart as Ahab
- Capitaine Achab, a 2004 French movie directed by Philippe Ramos, with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart
- Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick, a Japanese animated sequel to Moby-Dick, produced in 1997
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- The Sea Beast (1926) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1930) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955) (TV) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1956) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1978) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1998) (TV) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick (1999) at the Internet Movie Database
- Thar She Blows: The Making of 'Moby Dick' (1998) at the Internet Movie Database
- Animated Epics: Moby Dick Moby Dick (2000) at the Internet Movie Database
- History's Mysteries: The Essex - The True Story of Moby Dick (2001) at the Internet Movie Database
- Moby Dick: The True Story (2002) at the Internet Movie Database
- Capitaine Achab at the Internet Movie Database
