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Moby Dick

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Moby Dick
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4hrs 0min
Genres:
Action,Drama
Release:
1998
Director:
Franc Roddam
Distributor:
Hallmark
Starring:
Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Ted Levine  ...more
Synopsis: Director Franc Roddam and co-scripter Anton Diether adapted Herman Melville's 1851 classic for this four-hour TV miniseries sea adventure. Ishmael (Henry Thomas) ignores the warnings of dockside prophet Elijah (Bruce Spence) and joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod. Ismael befriends Polynesian harpooner Queequeg (Maori actor Piripi Waretini), hears a sermon by Father Mapple (Gregory Peck, star of the 1956 Moby Dick), and meets the obsessed Captain Ahab (Patrick Stewart), who lost his leg to ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review
Captain Ahab roams the seas again in this 1998 TV miniseries. Like the 1956 film version, it leaves the main theme of the novel (Ahab's relentless pursuit of the Great Unknown, symbolized by the whale) essentially intact. Patrick Stewart plays a wildly emotional Ahab in this newest version. From start to finish, Stewart's Ahab fulminates with zealotry, whether soliloquizing about the great leviathan ... Full Review
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Patrick Stewart
Captain Ahab
Henry Thomas
Ishmael
Ted Levine
Gregory Peck
Father Mapple
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