Moby Dick
The man – The whale – The vengeance – The mightiest adventure ever seen!
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Country
Production
Budget
$4 500 000
Box office
$10 400 000
Director
Actors
Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Noel Purcell, Edric Connor, Mervyn Johns, Joseph Tomelty
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
John Huston, Vaughan N. Dean
Camera operator
Oswald Morris
Composer
Philip Sainton
Artist
Geoffrey Drake, Stephen B. Grimes
Audition
Editing
Russell Lloyd
Whole Team (21)
Whole Team (21)
Short description
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
What's left behind the scenes
- Orson Welles (1915-1985) was terribly nervous during the filming of the sermon. To help the actor calm down, director John Huston hid a bottle of brandy on set, told Welles where it was, and allowed him to take sips – strictly for medical purposes.
- At one point, John Huston (1906-1987) insisted on filming aboard a ship in open water. The sea became rough, and all members of the film crew and actors were struck with seasickness. Filming had to be interrupted until people recovered, which led to overspending on the film. A debt of $4.5 million still remains with the film's creators.
- The world’s largest coffeehouse chain, Starbucks, borrowed its name from Starbuck, the first mate of the whaling ship Pequod.
- Two 25-meter models with steel frames and rubber shells were constructed for the scenes with Moby Dick. Both models, costing approximately $30,000 each, were lost at sea during filming. A third had to be ordered for filming on the Canary Islands. At one point during filming, the cable holding the model in place snapped, and it began to drift out to sea with Gregory Peck (1916-2003) on it.
- When Starbuck enters the captain's cabin and tells him it's time to sleep, Ahab replies that his bed is his grave. Sailors slept in hammocks, in which they were also buried, as if in shrouds. Officers had berths resembling boxes. In the event of their death, they were also laid in the berth, and the body was thrown overboard.
- Subsequently, many participants in the filming process, including John Huston and Gregory Peck, recounted that between one and three (accounts vary) whale models were lost during filming. From these stories, it was concluded that enormous whale models had indeed been constructed in the visual effects department, however, things were not as they seemed. According to Oswald Morris’s autobiographical book, during filming near the “Pequod,” a barge was located with mock-ups of whale body parts (hump, tail, etc.). These were filmed when needed. As for the shots showing the whale in its entirety, these were shots of smaller-scale mock-ups and were filmed in a special pool in a pavilion at the Shepperton studio. According to Morris’s recollections, the only thing lost during filming in the open sea was a 6-meter mock-up of the mid-torso, and Morris does not claim that Peck was on the mock-up at the time and had to be urgently rescued.
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