Moby Dick / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & the Vitaphone Corporation present ; directed by Lloyd Bacon ; a Warner Bros. & Vitaphone talking picture ; screen play & dialogue by J. Grubb Alexander.
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson, Nigel de Brulier, Walter Long, May Boley, Tom O'Brien, Virginia Sale, John Ince. "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video Play Only devices and may not play back in other DVD devices, including records and PC drives."--Container. A loose adaptation of "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1930. Full-screen 4x3 (1.37:1). Includes trailer.
Summary:
Ahab is a lovestruck swain whose romance with a New Bedford parson's daughter is severed when he loses his right leg in an ill-starred encounter with the Great White Whale. His jealous brother leads him to believe that his once-promised marriage can never be. So Ahab embarks again as the obsessed master of his own ship with a shanghaied crew to hunt the mighty mammal.
Series:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group archive collection
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