The Sea Beast (1926) — Moby Dick (1930) — Dämon des Meeres (1931) — Moby Dick–Rehearsed (1955) — Moby Dick (1956) — Mr. Magoo’s Moby Dick (1964) — Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967-69) — Moby Dick (1978) — 白鯨伝説 [Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick] (1997-98) — Moby Dick (miniseries, 1998) — Animated Epics: Moby Dick (2000) — Moby Dick: The True Story (2002) — Capitaine Achab (short film, 2003) — Into the Deep: America, Whaling, and the World (2010) — 2010: Moby Dick (2010) — Moby Dick (TV series, 2011) — Age of the Dragons (2011) — Ahab (2013)

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The Sea Beast (1926)

Director: Millard Webb; Starring: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O’Hara, Mike Donlin

Critic reviews

Mourdant Hall, The New York Times (Jan 16, 1926)

***For a commentary on Mourdant Hall see Jonathan Poritski on The Candler Blog.***

Scholarship

from Martin F. Norden, Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies (Rutgers, 1994) – order the book here.

Steve Biodrowski, “Sons of Moby Dick,” Cinefantastique Online (March 2, 2008)

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Moby Dick (1930)

Director: Lloyd Bacon; Starring: John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson

Critic reviews

Staff, “John Barrymore in ‘Moby Dick,’ Astor,” The Reading Eagle (Oct 12, 1930)

Scholarship

Steve Biodrowski, “Sons of Moby Dick,” Cinefantastique Online (March 2, 2008)

John D’Amico, “Lessons in Filmmaking #2: The White Whale,” Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences (April 27, 2013)
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Dämon des Meeres (1931)

Director: Michael Curtiz; Starring: William Dieterle, Lissy Arna, Anton Pointner

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Scholarhsip

Donald Crafton, The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 (University of California Press, 1997), p. 427

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Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955) – video recording of Welles’s play now considered lost

Director: Orson Welles; Starring: Gordon Jackson, Christopher Lee, Patrick McGoohan, Wensley Pithey

Critic reviews

Samantha Ellis, “Moby Dick, London, June 1955,” The Guardian (Jan 6, 2004) – an assessment of contemporary reviews of the play

Louis Lopardi, “Death to Whiteness… Moby Dick – Rehearsed,” ArtZine (March 8, 2007) – review of Marc Silberschatz’s production of Welles’s play

Elyse Somer, “Moby Dick – Rehearsed,” CurtainUp: The Internet Theater Magazine of Reviews, Features, Annotated Listings (June-July, 1999) – review of Eric Hill’s production of Welles’s play

William Triplett, “Orson Welles’s ‘Moby Dick’: Doomed Leviathan,” The Washington Post (May 8, 1997) – review of Jack Marshall’s production of Welles’s play

Jason Zinoman, “The Great White Whale Through a Wellesian Lens,” New York Times (March 10, 2007) – review of a contemporary adaptation of Welles’s play, directed by Marc Silberschatz and starring Seth Duerr as Ahab

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Phil Hall, “In Search of Welles’s Lost Moby Dick Film,” Celebrity Banter (Feb 27, 2015)

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Moby Dick (1956)

Director: John Huston; Screenplay: Ray Bradbury; Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice

Critic reviews

Bosley Crowther, The New York Times (July 5, 1956)

Phil Hall, Edge Media (Oct 4, 2010)

Variety Staff, Variety (Dec 31, 1955)

Scholarship

Steve Biodrowski, “Ray Bradbury on Adapting Melville’s Allegorical Sea Monster, Moby Dick,” Cinefantastique Online (March 2, 2008)

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The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964 – TV series); Episode: “Mr. Magoo’s Moby Dick”

Starring: Jim Backus, Joan Gardner, Marvin Miller, Paul Frees

Watch the full episode here.

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Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967-1969 – TV series)

Hannah Barbara Production Co.; Starring: Barry Balkin, Bobby Diamond, Patsy Garrett

Watch the series via KissCartoon here.