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Title:

Moby Dick [videorecording] / presented by USA Pictures ; a Whale/Nine Network Australia production ; a United Kingdom/Australian co-production ; produced by Steve McGlothen ; directed by Franc Roddam.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Mill Creek Entertainment Inc.

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

1 videodisc (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Melville, Herman--1819-1891--Film adaptations.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891.
Whales.
Sea stories--Drama.
Revenge.
Revenge--Drama.
Whales--Drama.
Whaling.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character.)
Whaling--Drama.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Sea stories.

Other Authors:

Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939-, film producer.
Fuchs, Fred, ((Fred S.),.)
Roddam, Franc,.
Noble, Kris,.
McGlothen, Steve,.
Diether, Anton,.
Halmi, Robert, 1957-, film producer.
Stewart, Patrick, 1940-, actor.
Thomas, Henry, 1971-, actor.
Keays-Byrne, Hugh, 1947-
Golden, Norman,.
Hunter, Bill, 1940-2011,.
Spence, Bruce,.
Purcell, Dominic, 1970-
Levine, Ted, actor.
Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003, actor.
Binns, Leslie,.
Connell, David, 1958-
Barton, Sean, 1944-
Gordon, Christopher, conductor.
Boyce, Marion,.
Diether, Anton,.
USA Pictures.
Whale Productions Limited.
Nine Network.
RHI Entertainment, Inc.
Mill Creek Entertainment.

Notes:

Anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1). Originally produced for television in 1998 in three episodes. Based on the book by Herman Melville. Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Ted Levine, Gregory Peck.

Summary:

The Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod, spirals the globe in search of Moby Dick, the mythical white whale of the Southern Oceans. Driven by the obsessive revenge of Captain Ahab, the crew and the outcast Ishmael find themselves caught up in a demonic pursuit which leads inexorably to an apocalyptic climax.

UPC:

683904542397

Locations:

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)