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www.prairienet.org - : There's an impressive,stark beauty about this film. Among the great sequences, the departure of the Pequod from New Bedford is a masterpiece of montage, camera angles, music and photography. more...
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www.channel4.com - : Inspired by whaling prints of the period, Huston and cameraman Morris devised a desaturated colour process for this ambitious movie. It looks suitably masculine, although Peck - a wonderful screen actor - was not demented enough as the captain in search not simply of the whale that maimed him but of an adversary of epic proportions. more...
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8.5/
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www.apolloguide.com - : Herman Melville’s seminal study of one man’s obsession with bringing down the legendary white whale is the source material for John Huston’s uneven, though often riveting, film. Despite being burdened with a miscast Gregory Peck in the central role of Ahab – apparently the studio, nervous about the commercial potential of such a bleak tale, insisted on Peck’s participation – Huston does an admirable job of taking us into the world of the 19th century whaler, and crafts a handful of memorable screen moments while he’s at it. more...
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77/1
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